If an adult has not developed a mind of his own, then he will find himself at the mercy of authorities for better or worse, just as an infant finds itself at the mercy of its parents. Saying no t...
If you’re only trying to be the opposite of a thing, you’re still letting that thing define you. Claudia Gray
The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you. Carl Jung
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand Russell, A History of West...
The reason we feel alienated is because society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a pare...
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. Czesław Miłosz
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud. DaShanne Stokes
Hitler’s psychological artillery was composed primarily of the weapon of fear. He had, for example, a network of fifth columnists whose main job was to sow rumors and suspicions among the citiz...
Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game. Evita Ochel
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own find...
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker. Paul Valéry
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses. Democritus
Intelligence is noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence also consists of ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns). Nassim N...
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Søren Kierkegaard
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscl...
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege,...
Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at th...