Miyamoto Musashi | Truth is not what you want it to be
"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie."
Miyamoto Musashi
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Big Manni | You have to understand something elementary
"You have to understand something elementary, people don't believe what they see, they see what they BELIEVE"
„Big Manni“
Christian Drosten | to isolate viruses in cell cultures. We never succeeded
"We also tried this for a long time, to isolate viruses in cell cultures. We never succeeded. That's how it is for many labs around the world that have tried. Zhengli Shi is actually the only lab back in Wuhan that managed to do that, to isolate a virus for once.[....] I know Zhengli Shi used the ones in the lab for that as well. Here you have to say, when you do this, practically the first thing that happens with the SARS-2 virus is that this furin site in the virus is destroyed. So when we isolate SARS-2 virus in Vero cells from patients, that furin site goes away immediately because that's a selection disadvantage for the virus in cell culture."
Christian Drosten
Just.A.Thought | Being a “conspiracy theorist”
"Being a "conspiracy theorist" is spending endless hours for years & years gathering as much information as possible from as many resources as possible and critically thinking about what that information means then having people who do nothing but watch TV tell you you're crazy."
Just.A.Thought
Friedrich Nietzsche | for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been — truth alone.
"for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been—truth alone."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Milan Kundera | The first step in liquidating a people
"The first step in liquidating a people, is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster."
Milan Kundera
When a physician walks behind the coffin of his patient
"When a physician walks behind the coffin of his patient, indeed the cause sometimes follows the effect."
Voltaire oder Robert Koch oder Marcus Tullius Cicero (allegedly)
C.S. Lewis | I do not like the pretensions of Government
“I do not like the pretensions of Government -- the grounds on which it demands my obedience -- to be pitched too high. I don't like the medicine-man's magical pretensions nor the Bourbon's Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet's Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands 'Thus saith the Lord', it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled.”
C.S. Lewis
Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion
"We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
Charles MacKay
Richard P. Feynman | To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven
"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science."
Richard P. Feynman
ZUBY | One of the biggest problems with college degrees
"One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they've made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they're too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer 'credentials'."
ZUBY
André Gide | It is better to be hated for what you are
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
André Gide
Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend
"I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve been wrong many times but I’m beginning to think I’m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you."
Russel Brand
Walter Lippmann | a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion
"...a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion when the selection rules of the journalists who have been brought into line largely coincide. This creates a consonance of reporting that acts like a confirmation to the audience (everyone says it, so it has to be right) and installs a stereotype-supported pseudo-environment"
Walter Lippmann
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | The leading media as well as the mass media are business models
"The leading media as well as the mass media are business models and serve no more to convey "truth" than the pharmaceutical industry serves to promote public health. Indoctrination is part of the essence of media."
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
Julius Evola | The inner victory against the deepest forces
"The inner victory against the deepest forces that surface in one’s consciousness during times of tension and mortal danger is a triumph in an external sense, but it is also the sign of a victory of the spirit against itself"
Julius Evola
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce | ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege
"ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice."
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Prof. Christoph Degenhart | The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner
"In the portrayal of political processes, I often see a certain political one-sidedness. For example, when it comes to the topics of ecology or Europeanization, critics are always put in the right-wing corner. [....] The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner. ARD and ZDF are increasingly acting as an acclamation forum for politics."
Professor Christoph Degenhart
Edmund Burke | Their passions forge their fetters
"Until you could make out practically that great work, a combination of opposing forces, "a work of labour long, and endless praise," the utmost caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your states. But at this day, all these considerations are unreasonable. To what end should we discuss the limitations of royal power? Your king is in prison. Why speculate on the measure and standard of liberty? I doubt much, very much indeed, whether France is at all ripe for liberty on any standard. Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
Edmund Burke
Terence McKenna | We are at war with our own nature
"We are, literally, a schizophrenic species. We are at war with our own nature"
Terence McKenna
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