Neil Postman: Familiar Problems and Unfamiliar Solutions
“People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.”
Neil Postman
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Everything Begins with Questions – Neil Postman
“Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.”
Neil Postman
Albert Einstein Quote on Doubt, Humility, and the True Path to Knowledge
“You imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.”
Albert Einstein
Lincoln Barnett Quote: Why Earth’s Motion Was Never Physically Proven!
“No physical experiment ever proved that the earth actually is in motion.”
Lincoln Barnett
Avro Manhattan on the Hidden Influence of the Vatican in World Politics
“No political event or circumstance can be evaluated without the knowledge of The Vatican’s part in it. And no significant world situation exists in which The Vatican does not play an important explicit or implicit role.”
Avro Manhattan
Henry Louis Mencken on the Good Citizen: The Truth About Education and Uniformity
“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”
Henry Louis Mencken
Helena P. Blavatsky Quotes: Secrets of Freemasons and Jesuits Revealed!
“It is curious to note too, that most of the bodies (Secret societies) which work these (sacred rites), such as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fesslors Rite, the Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West, Sovereign Princes (of) Masons, etc, etc, are nearly all the ‘offspring’ of the Son’s (Jesuits) of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsey, Tschoudy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others, who founded the ‘grades’ in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits.”
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Franz von Holtzendorff Quote: Revealing the Most Dangerous Form of Slavery!
“The worst and most dangerous slavery is that which people no longer feel because they have become accustomed to it.”
Franz von Holtzendorff
Franz von Holtzendorff Quote: Understanding the Highest Form of Lying
“The highest conceivable degree of lying is reached when judgment between truth and falsehood ceases and the liar believes his own lie and is indignant that others place doubt in his words.”
Franz von Holtzendorff
Elon Musk’s Shocking Take on the Press – You Won’t Believe It!
“Some of the smartest people I know actively believe the press … amazing”
Elon Musk