Love Your Neighbor as Yourself?

"One can't love man without equally hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other."

"Look, he seems to say, I'm so glad to be a pygmy, that's how virtuous I am...But that's not the spirit that leashed fire, steam, electricity, that crossed oceans in sailing sloops, that built airplanes and dams...and skyscrapers."

This is Rand complaining that to love all men equally is to do a huge disservice to humanity. We should recognize and exalt greatness.

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Do You Worship Man, or Hate Him?

"The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a hapless, depraved, contemptible creature - and struggle to never let him discover otherwise."

This highlights Rand's philosophy that it is a man's ethical duty to reach his highest potential, to be creative, to be great, and to live for himself. This is similar to the philosophies of Aristotle, Nietzsche, and the Humanist Psychology movement.

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