First Excerpt from The Fountainhead...

The first excerpt from The Fountainhead, the philosophy of Ellsworth Toohey - the critic, expressing and molding the voice of public opinion, the average man at large, the natural leader of average man....

Ellsworth was telling to his friends and disciples:

"It's good to suffer. Don't complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy. If you don't understand this, don't try to understand. Everything bad comes from the mind, because the mind asks too many questions. It is blessed to believe, not to understand. So if you didn't get passing grades, be glad of it. It means that you are better than the smart boys who think too much and too easily."

I hope I can live by this philosophy...