"Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives."

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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

— Leonard Peikoff