Philosophical Insight by H. L. Mencken on Pain and Humor
“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.”
H. L. Mencken
Repression of Kurds in the 1990s – Noam Chomsky
“By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote About Marriage and Relationships by Leo Tolstoi
“There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Prophylaxis and Palliation
“My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.”
Rudolf Virchow
Ivan Illich on School and Self-Directed Learning
“Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory – as we see at this moment in the United States – create a dazed population, a ‘learned’ population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.”
Ivan Illich
Umberto Eco on Allusion, Spirit and the Heart
“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”
Umberto Eco