Quote by Karl Popper on Clarity and Simplicity
“In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.”
Karl Popper
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Chris Hedges Quote on Success, Obedience, and Education
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.”
Chris Hedges
Heroism and Behavior – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nikola Tesla Quote About Connection and Freedom
“Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.”
Nikola Tesla
Allan Bloom on Education and the Love of the Beautiful
“A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. … Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.”
Allan Bloom
Sophia Loren Quote About Beauty and Radiance
“Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.”
Sophia Loren
Quote by Karl Popper: There is no history, only histories
“There is no history, only histories.”
Karl Popper
Critical Quote by Chris Hedges on Education and Power Structures
“Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite…know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don’t expect them to save us. They don’t know how….and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us”
Chris Hedges
Sophia Loren on Fashion and Clothing – a Pointed Quote
“A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
Sophia Loren
Quote by Karl Popper: Communication and Misunderstanding
“It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.”
Karl Popper