The Sage
Quotes for thoughts..
“Truth always rests with the minority.. because the minority is generally formed by those who really an opinion, while the strength of the majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion” - Soren Kierkergaard
“I don’t know if bonfires will return and books will be put on the index, but clearly the thought of those who continue to seek the truth and reject the dominant lie will be, as is already happening before our eyes, excluded and accused of spreading fake news (news, not Ideas, because news is more important than Reality!) As in all moments of emergency, real or simulated, we see once again the ignorant slander philosophers and scoundrels seeking to profit from the disasters that they themselves have provoked. All this has already happened and will continue to happen, but those who testify to the truth will not stop doing so, because no one can bear witness for the witness” - Gorgio Agamben
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell” - Carl Jung
“A people to whom liberty is given will never prize it as highly, defend it as bravely, or wear it as proudly as a nation that wrenched it from the hand of tyranny” - Frederic Douglass
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society-over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it” - Frederic Bastiat
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” - Albert Einstein
“ No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed to go nowhere” - Jacques Ellul
“I have a foreboding of an American in my children’s or grandchildren’s time-when the US is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in hands of a very few, and no one representing the public can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their won agendas or knowledgably question those in authority; When, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions and darkness…” - Carl Sagan 1996 (the demon haunted world)
“Most people have borrowed opinions, not reasoned arguments” - Peter Limberg
See you tomorrow.
- Ope