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C. S. Lewis quote about truth, comfort, and despair

7. August 2018

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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." C. S. Lewis

Inspirational quote image about goodness, compassion, and understanding by Neale Donald Walsch

7. August 2018

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"You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always." Neale Donald Walsch

Inspirational quote image featuring Epiktet's wisdom about listening more than speaking

1. August 2018

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"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak." Epiktet

Henry Ford quote about trusting God and staying free from worry

1. August 2018

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"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about." Henry Ford

Jonathan Swift quote image about talking men and having nothing to say

30. July 2018

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"There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say." Jonathan Swift

Walter Lippmann quote about rational decisions, balance, and what can be done

1. July 2018

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"A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done." Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann quote about progress and tradition

1. July 2018

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"Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions." Walter Lippmann

Inspirational quote about wisdom and the future by Walter Lippmann

1. July 2018

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"The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity." Walter Lippmann

John Trudell quote about the strength of poetry and clarity of thought

1. May 2018

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"The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it." John Trudell

Quote about the King of the Animals by Leonardo da Vinci

22. April 2018

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"King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth." Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational quote about taking risks and leadership by Swami Vivekananda

10. April 2018

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"Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead. If you lose, you can guide." Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational Friedrich Nietzsche quote image about finding purpose and meaning

1. March 2018

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"If you know the why, you can live any how." Friedrich Nietzsche

Quote about the engineering of consent by Edward Bernays

26. April 2016

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"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest." Edward Bernays

Inspirational quote image featuring Friedrich Nietzsche

1. March 2016

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"Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be." Friedrich Nietzsche

Murray Rothbard quote about liberty, morality, technological progress, and modern capitalism

1. February 2016

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"Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism." Murray Rothbard

Aldous Huxley quote about anarchy, efficiency, freedom, and the common decencies

8. September 2015

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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency." Aldous Huxley

Ayn Rand quote about individual rights and moral law

7. August 2015

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"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law." Ayn Rand

Inspirational quote image by Leo Tolstoi about serving God and personal responsibility

6. July 2015

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"It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create." Leo Tolstoi

Keeping Possibilities Open quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer

6. July 2015

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"The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities." Hans-Georg Gadamer

Inspirational Harry Browne quote graphic about personal choice

1. May 2015

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"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose." Harry Browne

Erich Fromm quote about freedom and failure

1. August 2014

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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." Erich Fromm

Quote image attributed to Ivan Illich about telephone communication and privacy

1. January 2014

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"The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with - or protect - the privacy of their exchange." Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich quote about schools, compulsory education, and self-directed learning

1. January 0223

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"Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before." Ivan Illich