Elon Musk Quote on Risk Aversion and Self-Protection
“There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”
Elon Musk
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Quote by Albert Jay Nock on Mind and Knowledge
“The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests…”
Albert Jay Nock
Socrates Quote on Youth, Wisdom, and Society
“The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.”
Sokrates
Quote by Socrates on Silence and Inner Peace
“Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.”
Sokrates
Quote by Socrates: Learning Through Others’ Writings
“Improve yourself by other men’s writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.”
Sokrates
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
Quote by Rupert Sheldrake on Insight and Behavior
“At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.”
Rupert Sheldrake
Ludwig von Mises on Nationalism, Protectionism, and War
“What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.”
Ludwig von Mises
Egalitarianism and Private Property – Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
“Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
More Paper Money Doesn’t Make Society Richer – Hans-Hermann Hoppe
“More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe