Terence McKenna | We are at war with our own nature
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"We are, literally, a schizophrenic species. We are at war with our own nature"
Terence McKenna
Mark Twain | No amount of evidence
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."
Mark Twain
Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Feminism is a muddled idea
"Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Fjodor Dostojewski | The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison."
Fjodor Dostojewski
Don Pettit | The only limit to human future is in our own imagination
"I'd go to the moon in a Nanosecond, but the Problem is that we no longer have that technology to do that anymore, we used to have it, but we destroyed it and it's a painful process to build it back again, but going to Mars should be one of the next series of steps that humans do. The first step should be going back to the Moon for a number of technical reasons and exploration reasons. And then after that Mars, maybe high orbit in Venus atmosphere maybe going to Europa. There's all kinds of targets to go to, places of interest in our solar system. The only limit to human future is in our own imagination."
Don Pettit (Nasa „Astronaut“)
Barack Obama | Ordinary men and women are too small-minded
"Ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign."
Barack Obama
Napoleon Bonaparte | A higher power is pushing me to a goal
"A higher power is pushing me to a goal i don’t know. Until it is reached, i will be invulnerable, unshakeable. As soon as i’m no longer needed, one fly will be enough to knock me down."
Napoleon Bonaparte
George Bernard Shaw | We want a few mad people now
"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"
George Bernard Shaw
George Orwell | If you want a picture of the future
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
George Orwell
Friedrich August von Hayek | all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny
"Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny."
Friedrich August von Hayek
Tom Clancy | What the government is good at is collecting taxes
"What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else."
Tom Clancy
Erich Fromm | Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable
"Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth."
Erich Fromm
Roland Baader | Let us free ourselves from the true evil (state counterfeit money)
"It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let's talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let's make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let's fight to ensure that the basis of people's freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it is we ourselves, our happiness and prosperity and freedom, who die with the market. Let us free ourselves from the true evil, from the fuel of presumptuous domination and destructive lies: from state counterfeit money."
Roland Baader
Klaus Kinski | If the government was replaced by the mafia
"If the government was replaced by the mafia we'd probably have half as much corruption and twice as much fun."
Klaus Kinski
Dr Mike Yeadon | have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers
"I’m aware this two page backgrounder & experimental proposal aims to show whether or not viruses exist, focussing on SARS-CoV-2. I’m a signatory because, having given a lot of thought to the entire proposition, I now believe it’s yet another of the lies to which we’ve been subject. In the case of scientists, even those in commercial drug discovery, have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers."
Dr Mike Yeadon
Benjamin Constant | When you pay the representatives of the people
"When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions."
Benjamin Constant
Voltaire | men can be influenced by making them think for themselves
"Controversy never convinced any man; men can be influenced by making them think for themselves, by seeming to doubt with them, by leading them as if by the hand, without their perceiving it. A good book lent to them, which they read at leisure, produces upon them surer effects, because they do not then blush to be subjugated by the superior reason of an antagonist."
Voltaire
John Edgar Hoover | a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists
"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent."
John Edgar Hoover
Jean de la Bruyère | The exact contrary […] is often the truth.
"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth."
Jean de la Bruyère
Daniel Dennett | There is no such thing as philosophy-free science
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination."
Daniel Dennett
Viktor Emil Frankl | The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal
"A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.[...] Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true."
Viktor Emil Frankl
Ayn Rand | You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences
„Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences.“
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand | He is free to evade reality
"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."
Ayn Rand
Arno Gruen | While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values
"While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values are considered insane, those who have separated from their human roots are certified normal."
Arno Gruen
Thomas von Aquin | The greatest kindness
"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth."
Thomas von Aquin
Daniel Dennett | There’s simply no polite way
"There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion."
Daniel Dennett
Abraham Lincoln | You can tell the greatness of a man
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry"
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas von Aquin | He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."
Thomas von Aquin
James Ison | Many more people would have died
"Many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen who took action within the first two minutes of this shooting."
James Ison
Bill Hicks | a productive member of society
"If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in."
Bill Hicks
Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system
"We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulrich Baretzky | The most beautiful thing for me about Formula E
"The most beautiful thing for me about Formula E is the great sound of the diesel generators that are used to charge the batteries of the racing cars!"
Ulrich Baretzky
Edward Osborne Wilson | We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom
"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
Edward Osborne Wilson
