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Quote about money creation and debt by G. Edward GriffinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish." G. Edward Griffin
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Inspirational quote by Johannes Kepler about passion for truth and scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Now, eighteen months after the first light, three months after the true day, but a very few days after the pure Sun of that most wonderful study began to shine, nothing restrains me; it is my pleasure to yield to the inspired frenzy, it is my pleasure to taunt mortal men with the candid acknowledgement that I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far, far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God Himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study Him." Johannes Kepler
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Quote by Noam Chomsky comparing artificial intelligence to plagiarism softwareCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations. Let's stop calling it Artificial Intelligence and call it what it is: Plagiarism Software. It doesn’t create anything, just copies existing works from artists and alters them sufficiently to escape copyright laws. It's the largest theft of property since Native American lands by European settlers." Noam Chomsky
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Inspirational quote by Alan Watts about overcoming fear through curiosityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us." Alan Watts
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Inspirational quote about inner victory by Julius EvolaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The inner victory against the deepest forces that surface in one’s consciousness during times of tension and mortal danger is a triumph in an external sense, but it is also the sign of a victory of the spirit against itself" Julius Evola
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Inspirational quote about spiritual discovery and personal happiness by Prentice MulfordCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness" Prentice Mulford
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Inspirational quote by Prentice Mulford about success and joy in pursuing goalsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing." Prentice Mulford
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Quote about addictive effect of driving drum rhythm by Dr. Daniel and Bernadette SkubikCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A driving drum rhythm in excess of three to four beats per second will put the brain into a state of stress, regardless if the listener likes or dislikes the music. And when the brain is in this stressful state, it will release opioids—a group of natural hormones that function like morphine—to help return itself to normal equilibrium and sense of well-being. These natural opioids, if experienced often enough, can be addicting, creating in the listener the continual desire for that ‘high’ somewhat like the high runners experience." Dr. Daniel und Bernadette Skubik
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Quote by Wolfgang Borchert about the generation without ties and without depthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are the generation without ties and without depth. Our depth is the abyss. We are the generation without happiness, without home and without farewell. Our sun is narrow, our love is cruel and our youth is without youth. And we are the generation without boundaries, without restraint and protection - cast out of the playpen of childhood into a world prepared for us by those who despise us for it." Wolfgang Borchert
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Vernon Howard inspirational quote about truth and thinkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The truth , when it arrives is always different from what we thought it would be..if we imagine that we already know the truth, that imaginations based on old and habitual ideas. But the truth is always something entirely new to the mind; so we cannot possibly imagine it. Just as we cannot know what a new day is like before we experience it, we cannot think accurately about a new truth until we first live it. As we dare to drop our conditioned opinions, we make room for the truth..." Vernon Howard
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A quote on holistic worldview and belief systems by Rich LuskCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As Quine has said, 'Our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience not individually but only as a corporate body.' Quine has uncovered an important feature of human thought here, one that the analytic-synthetic distinction overlooks. Beliefs are not held or tested atomistically, in a one-by-one fashion. Rather beliefs come in clusters, forming a worldview, which is then used to interpret experience. One's worldview as a whole confronts the data of language and experience. Simple appeals to language (analyticity) or observation (syntheticity) do not reveal whether or not our beliefs will be altered when challenged. People will grant revisionary immunity to certain core beliefs not on the basis of linguistics, but on the basis of an overall worldview. Those beliefs that are held most dearly and form the hearts of one's conceptual scheme will be the hardest to let go and the last we let go. Indeed, all of us have beliefs we will cling to regardless of almost anything! Only a revolution in our conceptual framework will alter these most central beliefs. These beliefs often appear to be almost insulated from testing; indeed, they are the standard by which everything else is tested...This is not to say that all human beings think in consistent systems, or even that most are aware of the nature of their own thought. It is virtually certain that everyone holds to some incompatible or inconsistent beliefs. Most people do not reflect on their own thinking enough to notice these inconsistencies or to notice the 'worldviewesh' character of their thought." Rich Lusk
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Erich Fromm quote on thinking, happiness, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Well now, I believe we are much less stupid than it seems. We are trained not to think. Formulas are drilled into us, which we parrot. But I believe that if the desire for true happiness, for true knowledge were to fully awaken among people in society – what the Enlightenment called with Kant's words: Sapere aude! Dare to know! – and not to consume canned wisdom that someone else has cooked and served, and then even experienced oneself as if I had thought such a thing... I believe that tremendous change could be achieved. People are not that stupid at all. But it is dangerous not to be stupid. Because if you are not stupid, you contradict, criticize, express unpopular opinions. And for safety reasons, it is better to appear stupid." Erich Fromm
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Quote by Jacques Martin Barzun about morality and intellectCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect" Jacques Martin Barzun
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John Hampden quote about the earth's surface being level and the earth not a globeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We know this by patient and long continued investigations - the surface of water is a LEVEL SURFACE. This is the key which is unlocking the minds of the people and letting in a flood of light upon the question of the shape of the earth. We know consequently that the surface of earth is a plane surface and that the earth itself can NOT be a globe." John Hampden
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Quote by William Barrett about the beginning of the Modern Age and the rise of modern science and technologyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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""When did this Modern Age begin? Historical epochs merge into one another, and it may be arbitrary to seek for points of absolute beginning. When, for example, did the Middle Ages begin? When end? It would be futile here to seek an absolute point of division between the past and the epoch that succeeded it. But sometimes there are points at which we can see clearly that by this time something new has already arrived and is bound to transform human history radically. Accordingly, we may take the beginning of our Modern Age to be the early-seventeenth century. For that was the century that created modern science and its accompanying technology; and these two, science and technology, have become, as we have seen, the driving forces within modern civilization."" William Barrett
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Quote by Paul Feyerabend on how propaganda shapes knowledge and truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are numerous sociological and historical case studies describing how opinions are established as "knowledge" in societies. For example, Paul Feyerabend explained in 1975 that the establishment of the heliocentric worldview was not based on new discoveries, but on a clever propaganda strategy of Galileo Galilei. According to Feyerabend, the representatives of the geocentric world view "did not recognize the propaganda value of predictions and dramatic shows, nor did they make use of the intellectual and social power of the newly created classes. They lost because they did not take advantage of existing opportunities."" Paul Feyerabend
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Quote by Walter van der Kamp on science, truth, and plausibilityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Actually neither this Galileo, nor his mentor Copernicus, had a shred of truly tangible and unequivocal evidence for their heliocentric belief – and well do historians, astronomers, and philosophers of science know it! As I recently found it succinctly expressed in a research paper “Since Galileo science has shed logical proofs in favour of plausibility. Indeed, by this “scientific method” of adding plausible explanations to plausible explanations astronomy has arrived at the present view of the cosmos. However, those who forget that “plausible” and “proven” are not synonyms inevitably will see their chickens come home to roost.”" Walter van der Kamp
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Quote by Steven Weinberg about the International Space Station and manned spaceflightCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The International Space Station is an orbital turkey....No important science has come out of it. I could almost say no science has come out of it. And I would go beyond that and say that the whole manned spaceflight program, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value." Steven Weinberg
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Brian Edward Cox explaining why the Earth is not flat with scientific reasoningCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat. Nobody in human history, as far as I know, has thought the world was flat. The Greeks measured the radius of the Earth. I cannot conceive of a reason why anybody would think the world is flat. There are interesting bits of physics that tell you you live on a spinning planet and one of them is called the Coriolis force, which is the force that's responsible for causing storm systems to rotate on the planet. So when you see those beautiful pictures of storms spinning around and rotating, the reason for that is that we live on a spinning planet. It's probably the most nonsensical suggestion that a thinking human being could possibly make. It is drivel." Brian Edward Cox
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Quote by Max Planck about the importance of faith in scientific workCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with." Max Planck
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Quote by Marcia Angell about the crisis in clinical research and medical guidelinesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine" Marcia Angell
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Quote by Richard Horton about issues in scientific literature and the dark side of scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness" Richard Horton
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Quote by Dr. Michio Kaku about string theory, dimensions, and the multiverseCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Why do we think that? Because we have a theory called string theory, it is fantastic it is incredible. It has astounded the world of mathematics, and physics and now you can't move in the physics world without bumping into somebody who wants to talk about the 10th Dimension the 11th Dimension the Multiverse hyperspace time travel. All the things that were once considered science fiction are now centerpiece in our understanding of the nature of everything." Dr. Michio Kaku
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Quote by Edwin Grant Conklin about dictators controlling education, science, and historyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science." Edwin Grant Conklin
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Quote about freethinkers by Leo Tolstoi emphasizing the importance of open-mindednessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking…" Leo Tolstoi
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Quote by Novak Djokovic about media spreading fear and panic among peopleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Too many people today allow themselves such freedom to ask things and condemn a person. Whatever you answer: ‘Yes, I didn't, maybe, I don't know, I'm thinking,’ they will abuse it. The media has become, I have no word how to describe it. It spreads fear and panic among people, and I don’t want to participate in that rift. I feel that everyone is hostile. I don’t want to give them a reason to write some things about me. Now what I told you, one of your editors can take and make a scandal out of it. I don't want to take part in any storm that is happening right now." Novak Djokovic
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Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon about government control and its impact on individualsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Quote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about governments using pandemics and war to impose controlsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Governments love pandemics, & they love pandemics for the same reasons they love war. Because it gives them the possibility of imposing controls on the population that the latter would never accept otherwise." Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Quote by Jeremiah J. Crowley warning about Roman Catholic hierarchy influence on politicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"How long shall the Roman Catholic Hierarchy play the people for fools? Shall the government be of the people, for the people, and by the people, or by the pope? Let’s not let the pope of Rome name our President for us. Lovers of your country, beware of Jesuitical intrigues, the political power of Romanism, and the honeyed words of politicians reaching after the presidency!" Jeremiah J. Crowley
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Quote about media censorship and elite education by George OrwellCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In just two sentences, Orwell reveals the institutional structure of the media. He asks: Why is there such censorship? It is partly because the press is owned by wealthy people who want only certain topics to reach the public. And secondly, Orwell says, everyone who goes through the elite education system, attending the "right" schools, learns that there are certain things you must not say and certain thoughts you must not think. This is the role elite institutions play in socialization. Those who do not conform are usually expelled. These two sentences basically say it all." George Orwell
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Quote on bureaucracy and despotic power by Walter LippmannCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government." Walter Lippmann
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Quote about democracy by Ramin Peymani on a textured backgroundCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are governed by limited people, whom limited people help to achieve majorities, with whom they make policies for limited people. This is the logic inherent in democracies, because due to the fundamental structure of the state form, in the end the dumbest prevail." Ramin Peymani
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Quote by Nigel Calder on CO2 global warming theory and political taxationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All parties in industrialized countries, whether right or left, will adopt the CO2 global warming theory. This is a unique opportunity to tax the air we breathe. Because they supposedly save the world from a heat death, politicians even receive applause for it. No party will resist this temptation." Nigel Calder
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Quote by Roland Baader on the importance of the market economy in securing freedom.Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let's talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let's make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let's fight to ensure that the basis of people's freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it is we ourselves, our happiness and prosperity and freedom, who die with the market. Let us free ourselves from the true evil, from the fuel of presumptuous domination and destructive lies: from state counterfeit money." Roland Baader
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Quote by Benjamin Constant about how paying representatives affects their motivationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions." Benjamin Constant
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Quote by Donald Trump about Elon Musk's subsidized projectsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, “drop to your knees and beg,” and he would have done it…" Donald Trump
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Quote by Rose Wilder Lane about the nature of State, Government, and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men." Rose Wilder Lane
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Quote by Yuval Noah Harari about the relationship between science, power, and truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I mean science, as an institution, is interested in gaining the power — to gain control over the world — to be able to gain control over diseases, over the human body, over the environment, over rivers and animals and forests. You have to submit a grant to somebody to fund, it all comes down to money, in many cases. It’s also an institution- If you’re a freelance scientist, you just explore the truth. Okay. But in an institution, a university, you need money to finance so you submit a research grant, and you have to convince the authority not of the truth. You have to convince the authority that what you want to do will somehow make us more powerful. Will somehow enable us to produce a new weapon. Will somehow enable us to produce more food. Will somehow enable us to gain control over previously uncontrollable, or deadly disease. And this is really what gets the money. Of course, it means to also be truth to some extent. Does it work and who wants it?" Yuval Noah Harari
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Quote about national currency control and sovereignty by William Lyon Mackenzie KingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile." William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Quote by George Bernard Shaw about trusting gold over governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." George Bernhard Shaw
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