Notable Quotable 199

Feb 02, 2024

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

- Lysander Spooner

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

- Paulo Coelho

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything.

- Jack Kerouac

The study of the past is an exercise in humility; while the smug are nervously trammeled up in their self-opinion, the humble are free to rejoice in what is genuinely great or noble or beautiful. The adulator of the new must believe that a great oblong in brick and glass and steel marks an ‘advance’ in every respect from Chartres or Notre Dame de Paris, but the humble student of history has no stake in that game. He is free to wonder at the glory that a supposedly benighted people could accomplish—and then free to wonder where the real artistic darkness is to be found, then or now.

- Anthony Esolen

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Birth is not the beginning of life - only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death - only the ending of this awareness.

- Hermes Trismegistus

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

- Samuel Adams

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

- Albert Einstein

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

- D. H. Lawrence

Whether one is a conservative or a radical, a protectionist or a free-trader, a cosmopolitan or a naturalist, a churchman or a heathen, it is useful to know the consequences of economic phenomena.

- George J. Stigler