“Ignorance is not bliss–it is oblivion.”
–PHILLIP WYLIE–
“Earth is an insane asylum to which the other planets deport their lunatics.”
–VOLTAIRE–
“If I had intended to seek the favor of the world, I should have adorned myself better and should present myself in a studied bearing. I wish to be seen in my simple, natural, and ordinary fashion, without effort or artifice, for it is myself that I portray.”
–MONTAIGNE–
“None are so hopelessly enslaved
as those who falsely believe they are free.”
–GOETHE–
“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”
–H. L. MENCKEN–
“After all, when one tries to change institutions
without having changed the nature of men,
that unchanged nature will soon resurrect those institutions.”
–WILL DURANT–
“Either you think–or else others have to think for you
and take power from you.”
–F. SCOTT FITZGERALD–
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
–ALBERT EINSTEIN–
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
–OSCAR WILDE–
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”
–VOLTAIRE–
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.”
–GALILEO–
–PHILLIP WYLIE–
“Earth is an insane asylum to which the other planets deport their lunatics.”
–VOLTAIRE–
“If I had intended to seek the favor of the world, I should have adorned myself better and should present myself in a studied bearing. I wish to be seen in my simple, natural, and ordinary fashion, without effort or artifice, for it is myself that I portray.”
–MONTAIGNE–
“None are so hopelessly enslaved
as those who falsely believe they are free.”
–GOETHE–
“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”
–H. L. MENCKEN–
“After all, when one tries to change institutions
without having changed the nature of men,
that unchanged nature will soon resurrect those institutions.”
–WILL DURANT–
“Either you think–or else others have to think for you
and take power from you.”
–F. SCOTT FITZGERALD–
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
–ALBERT EINSTEIN–
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
–OSCAR WILDE–
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”
–VOLTAIRE–
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.”
–GALILEO–
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
–LEO TOLSTOY–
“Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities.”
–VOLTAIRE–
