All 9 Uses of
tenet
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He had accepted the tenet that it was his duty to give his wife some form of existence unrelated to business.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- I've never accepted that other tenet ….†
Chpt 2.4
- …being willing to fake, since her will to self-deceit was the essential required for Galt's self-sacrifice, then living out her years in hopeless longing, accepting, as relief for an unhealing wound, some moments of weary affection, plus the tenet that love is futile and happiness is not to be found on earth-Francisco, struggling in the elusive fog of a counterfeit reality, his life a fraud staged by the two who were dearest to him and most trusted, struggling to grasp what was missing…†
Chpt 3.2
- I had accepted the one tenet by which they destroy a man before he's started, the killer-tenet: the breach between his mind and body.†
Chpt 3.3
- I had accepted the one tenet by which they destroy a man before he's started, the killer-tenet: the breach between his mind and body.†
Chpt 3.3
- I had accepted, unwittingly and by default, the tenet that ideas were of no consequence to one's existence, to one's work, to reality, to this earth-as if ideas were not the province of reason, but of that mystic faith which I despised.†
Chpt 3.3
- He was seeing the progression of the years, the monstrous extortions, the impossible demands, the inexplicable victories of evil, the preposterous plans and unintelligible goals proclaimed in volumes of muddy philosophy, the desperate wonder of the victims who thought that some complex, malevolent wisdom was moving the powers destroying the world-and all of it had rested on one tenet behind the shifty eyes of the victors: he'll do something!†
Chpt 3.6
- You propose to establish a social order based on the following tenets: that you're incompetent to run your own life, but competent to run the lives of others-that you're unfit to exist in freedom, but fit to become an omnipotent ruler-that you're unable to earn your living by the use of your own intelligence, but able to judge politicians and to vote them into jobs of total power over arts you have never seen, over sciences you have never studied, over achievements of which you have no…†
Chpt 3.7
- No matter what dishonorable compromise you've made with your impracticable creed, no matter what miserable balance, half-cynicism, half-superstition, you now manage to maintain, you still preserve the root, the lethal tenet: the belief that the moral and the practical are opposites.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(tenet) an important belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs