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Quote image featuring Allan Bloom on Socrates, knowledge, and understanding

9. September 2018

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"Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge." Allan Bloom

Inspirational quote image by Stella McCartney

8. September 2018

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"Sometimes I wish I were less sensible." Stella McCartney

B. J. Palmer quote image from The Path of Least Resistance

7. September 2018

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"It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked." B. J. Palmer

Inspirational quote image featuring Ralph Waldo Trine and his words about miracles and true identity

7. September 2018

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"A miracle is nothing more nor less than this One who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the allpervading Wisdom and Power, thus makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him." Ralph Waldo Trine

17. August 2018

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"I'm not too unintelligent." Tom Felton

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 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

Walter Lippmann quote about inalienable human dignity

6. July 2014

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"The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons." Walter Lippmann

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