Learning and Progress – Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Author Archive for: Jan
Entries by Jan
Ivan Illich on Culture and Pain
“Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it’s necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.”
Ivan Illich
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Cynicism and Truth
“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”
H. L. Mencken
“We are what we do” – Quote by Eduardo Galeano
“We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.”
Eduardo Galeano
Ivan Illich on Multilingualism and Language
“Most people, throughout history, haven’t learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia.”
Ivan Illich
Wanton Killing of Innocent Civilians is Terrorism – Noam Chomsky
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
Noam Chomsky
Deschooling and Power – Quote by Ivan Illich
“To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich on College and University Systems
“The college and university systems, at least, have become like television. There’s a bit of this and a bit of that and some compulsory program with its components connected in a way that only a planner could understand.”
Ivan Illich
Harry Browne on Paper Money and Gold
“When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.”
Harry Browne
Ivan Illich on the Grammar of Silence
“It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they “speak with the accent of natives” they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.”
Ivan Illich