Charles Wright Mills on Understanding Individuals in Social Context
“You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society, historical time period in which they live, personal troubles, and social issues.”
Charles Wright Mills
Fred Hoyle Quote on the Origin of Life from the Primordial Soup
“In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.”
Fred Hoyle
Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff on Self-Verification and Belief
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
Quote by Denis Diderot on Truth and Facts
“Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.”
Denis Diderot
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Superstition and the State
“A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Self-Taught Individuals and Academic Education
“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Powerlessness and Political Frustration
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.”
Charles Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills on Mass Production and Distraction in the USA
“The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.”
Charles Wright Mills
Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Only with the Heart Can One See Rightly
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Paul Feyerabend Quote on Science, Commerce, and Military
“The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is – which means military matters.”
Paul Feyerabend