Albert Jay Nock Quote on Societal Improvement
“The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.”
Albert Jay Nock
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Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Religion and Ethics
“Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Relativity and Turbulence
“When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Quote by Albert Jay Nock on State, Charity, and Individual
“When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.”
Albert Jay Nock
Quote by Albert Jay Nock on Life, Belief, and Immortality
“Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.”
Albert Jay Nock
Fascinating Phenomena in the Solar System by Philip Plait
“Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places…and that’s just at Saturn.”
Philip Plait
Quote by Albert Jay Nock on Learning, Forgetting, and Pedantry
“Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.”
Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock Quote on the Mentality of an Army on the March
“The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.”
Albert Jay Nock
Independence and Freedom Quote by Samuel Adams
“The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.”
Samuel Adams
Quote by Samuel Adams on the Right to Freedom and Christianity
“The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty….The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.”
Samuel Adams