Leonard Peikoff Quote

Hannah Arendt, the best and most philosophically inclined of the commentators, is also, in regard to her ultimate conclusions, the worst, i.e., the most perversely wrong-headed. In a final warning, she singles out for special attack the attitude which she regards as a major source of the Nazis’ evil and of their success: an unswerving commitment to logic. The Nazis, she says, and the masses attracted to them, were too consistent in pursuing the implications of a basic premise (which she identifies as racism); they gave up the freedom of thought for the strait jacket of logic or the tyranny of logicality; they did not admit that complete consistency exists nowhere in the realm of reality, which is pervaded instead by fortuitousness.