Philosophy in Fiction

The two greatest books of the 20th Century were, by far, 1984 and Atlas Shrugged. The political and philosophical insight that each book presented is simply mesmerizing. Objective reality, reason, ethics and morality, government — it’s all covered.

Below are the quotations that either explicitly or implicitly explain what I believe about the listed topics. The quotations will not be sourced — if you want to know where they are found, simply read the books again (or for the first time?). =)

Objective Reality

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same