02-06-2022, 03:28 PM
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions."
Primo Levi.
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
Tolstoy.
"Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" ÔÇô
Spinoza
"It's hard to get a man to understand something if his paycheck depends upon him not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Primo Levi.
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
Tolstoy.
"Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" ÔÇô
Spinoza
"It's hard to get a man to understand something if his paycheck depends upon him not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)