Accepting Reason – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Runners are Poor Walkers – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Runners are poor walkers.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Consider Before You Give – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The Wisdom of Fools – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Principles and Right
“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Our Society on the Brink of Entertainment Obsession – Neil Postman
“Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.”
Neil Postman
Limits of Science – Quote by Neil Postman
“But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, “How did it all begin?”, science answers, “Probably by an accident.” To the question, “How will it all end?”, science answers, “Probably by an accident.” And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, “Why are we here?” and, to the question, “What moral instructions do you give us?”, the science-god maintains silence.”
Neil Postman
Hermann Göring Quote on Fear: The Dark Power of Manipulation Revealed
“It was very easy, it has nothing to do with Nazism, it has something to do with human nature. You can do it in a Nazi, socialist, communist regime, in a monarchy and even in a democracy. The only thing that needs to be done to enslave people is to scare them. If you manage to find a way to scare people, you can make them do what you want.”
Hermann Göring
Cossiga Quotes: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
“All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack (of 9/11) has been planned and realized by the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put the Arabic countries under accusation and to induce the Western Powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Francesco Maurizio Cossiga
Language Etches the Grooves – Noam Chomsky
“Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.”
Noam Chomsky