Language and the Nature of Language – Novalis Quote
“Language cares about nothing but its own wonderful nature.”
Novalis
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Noam Chomsky on Opinion Control and Social Passivity
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
Noam Chomsky
Bernardo Kastrup Quote on Materialism and Unhappy People
“The mainstream metaphysics of materialism legitimizes the outrageous notion that unhappy people are simply malfunctioning biological robots.”
Bernardo Kastrup
Truth-Seeking – Bernardo Kastrup
“Truth-seeking is the path to self-annihilation and thus to liberation.”
Bernardo Kastrup
Our Myth-Making Capacity – Bernardo Kastrup
“Our myth-making capacity may be our key role in the dance of existence.”
Bernardo Kastrup
Materialism and Its Critique by Bernardo Kastrup
“Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests.”
Bernardo Kastrup
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Ideas and Authority
“Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.”
Walter Lippmann
Questioning Opinion Formation – Walter Lippmann Quote
“It is often very illuminating…to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?”
Walter Lippmann
Successful Politicians Are Insecure People – Walter Lippmann
“Successful … politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.”
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann Quote on Feelings and Perception
“The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event … For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.”
Walter Lippmann