Whether itβs a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through oneβs own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before. β¨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.92, Penguin
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