Genius soars over obstacles that talent climbs – German Proverb
“Genius soars over obstacles that talent climbs.”
Deutsches Sprichwort
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Words Are Like Flames – Otto Wirz Quote
“Words are like flames in the night, feelings and thoughts fly in like moths.”
Otto Wirz
H. P. Lovecraft Quotes: The Bitter Truth About False Civilizations
“It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is attuned to the mentality of the galley-slave and the moron, and crushes relentlessly with disapproval, ridicule, and economic annihilation any sign of actually independent thought and civilised feeling whith chances to rise above its sodden level. It is a treadmill, squirrel-trap culture – drugged and frenzied with the hashish of industrial servitude and material luxury. It is wholly a material body-culture, and its symbol is the tiled bathroom and steam radiator rather than the Doric portico and the temple of philosophy. Its denizens do not live or know how to live.”
H. P. Lovecraft
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge – Bertrand Russell
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
Bertrand Russell
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote on Truth and Lies
“I sought the truth in the books, and I found therein nothing but error and lies.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It takes many lies to cover up a truth – Unknown
“It takes many lies to cover up a truth.”
Unbekannt
The truth often requires patience – Unknown
“The truth often requires patience, while lies only need attention”
Unbekannt
It takes a thousand lies to conceal one truth – Unknown
“It takes a thousand lies to conceal one truth”
Unbekannt
General Aladeen Quote: The Harsh Reality of Dictatorial Power
“Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.”
General Aladeen
George Orwell Quotes – A Stark Warning About Totalitarianism and Abuse of Power
“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.”
George Orwell