Shu Ching | there is nothing better than music
"For changing peoples' manners and altering their customs there is nothing better than music."
Shu Ching
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Aristotle | Music directly represents the passions of the soul
in Aristoteles, Aristotle"Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person."
Aristotle
Albert Einstein | Education is what remains after
in Albert Einstein"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
Albert Einstein
Plato | Strange times are these in which we live
in Plato"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool"
Plato
Gore Vidal | chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice
in Gore Vidal"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice."
Gore Vidal
George Bernard Shaw | In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat
in George Bernard Shaw"In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific."
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw | We are more gullible and superstitious today
in George Bernard Shaw"We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality."
George Bernard Shaw
Joost A.M. Meerloo | effective mind control.
in Joost A.M. Meerloo"Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Fred Fedler | The media may constitute the most powerful education system
in Fred Fedler"The media may constitute the most powerful education system ever known to man."
Fred Fedler
Albert Camus | The welfare of the people
in Albert Camus"The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."
Albert Camus
Jordan Maxwell | Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does
in Jordan Maxwell"Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters."
Jordan Maxwell
Karl Jaspers | To be scientific, that is to know what one knows and what one does not know
in Karl Jaspers"To be scientific, that is to know what one knows and what one does not know; unscientific is dogmatic knowledge. To be scientific is to know with reasons; to accept ready-made opinions is unscientific. Scientific is the knowledge with the consciousness of the respectively determined limits of the knowledge; unscientific is all total knowledge, as if one knew in the whole. Scientific is boundless criticism and self-criticism, the advancing questioning; unscientific is the concern that doubt could paralyze. Scientific is the methodical course, which step by step on the ground of experience penetrates to the decision; unscientific is the play of multiple opinions and possibilities and the murmuring."
Karl Jaspers
Jonathan Swift | When a great genius appears in the world
in Jonathan Swift"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) irischer Schriftsteller
"Das Auftauchen eines wahrhaft genialen Geistes können Sie untrüglich daran erkennen, dass sich sofort alle Nieten gegen ihn verbünden."
Norbert W. Bolz | All the notable experts
in Uncategorized"All the notable experts support government policy because you only become a notable expert if you support government policy."
Norbert W. Bolz
J.R.R. Tolkien | Evil cannot create anything new
in J.R.R. Tolkien"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made"
J.R.R. Tolkien
MOYO-Film | because it strives to break out of this cognitive cage
in MOYO-Film"Activating collective consciousness is probably one of the most difficult tasks to attempt because people are largely unaware of the extent to which their thinking is governed by tacit rules and predetermined as given, assumed notions that, because they appear as self-evident truth, render ideology invisible. Truly unrestricted intellectual debate feels threatening because it strives to break out of this cognitive cage. Worse, this cage is so insidious that it influences even those who are already outside the mainstream."
MOYO-Film
Daniel Neun | One need only translate the terms “conspiracy theorists” as “heretics”
in Daniel Neun"One need only translate the terms "conspiracy theorists" as "heretics" to know the tradition in which these terms stand and those who use them. Ultimately, it is about the accusation of apostasy from the ruling faith, which is determined by the ruling authorities and majorities. (Faith in this respect can also be translated as ruling doctrine, ideology, etc.). Thus, contrary to the subjective view of many of its users, the terms are themselves expressions of clerical and authoritarian thought structures based on subjugation as a basic psychological pattern. It is denunciatory, inquisitorial. It is directed against classical skepticism. Thus, the main purpose of these terms can only be to discredit "serious conjectures", hypotheses and facts, and thereby prevent real causal research."
Daniel Neun
Bill Hicks | Today a young man on acid realized
in Bill Hicks"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather."
Bill Hicks
Marianne Williamson | Our Greatest Fear
in Marianne Williamson"It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others."
Marianne Williamson
Salviati | there is no limit to my astonishment when I reflect that
in Salviati"You wonder that there are so few followers of the Pythagorean opinion [that the earth moves] while I am astonished that there have been any up to this day who have embraced and followed it.
Nor can I ever sufficiently admire the outstanding acumen of those who have taken hold of this opinion and accepted it as true:
they have, through sheer force of intellect, done such violence to their own senses as to prefer what reason told them over that which sensible experience plainly showed them to be the contrary.
For the arguments against the whirling [the rotation] of the earth we have already examined are very plausible, as we have seen; and the fact that the Ptolemaics and the Aristotelians and all their disciples took them to be conclusive is indeed a strong argument of their effectiveness.
But the experiences which overtly contradict the annual movement [the movement of the earth around the sun] are indeed so much greater in their apparent force that, I repeat, there is no limit to my astonishment when I reflect that Aristarchus and Copernicus were able to make reason so conquer sense that in defiance of the latter, the former became mistress of their belief."
Salviati