Notable Quotable 239
There is no chain of philosophical reasoning or method of philosophical enquiry through which we can arrive at the truths of faith as conclusions. But once by faith we have acknowledged those truths we are able to understand why there is good reason to acknowledge them. This...is because of the effects of sin on the human mind. It is because human minds are obscured by familiarity with darkness, which covers them in a night of sins and bad habits, and are unable to perceive with the clarity and purity proper to reason that authority has been provided to bring the faltering eye into the light of truth.
- Alasdair MacIntyre
While the popular understanding of anarchy is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchy is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organization.
- L. Susan Brown
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
- Bebe Moore Campbell
I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?
- Max Stirner
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
- H.L Mencken
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
- Socrates
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- Sokrates
All great art is praise; the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
- John Ruskin
Those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. Celestial and divine beings have clearer judgements, an uncorrupted will, and the ability to achieve what they seek. Human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood. Their ultimate enslavement is when they give themselves up to vice and no longer exercise their powers of reason. They have lowered their eyes from the highest truth to dark, base things and are wrapped in a cloud of ignorance. They give in to destructive whims and consent to things that strengthen their bonds of slavery. They have brought this upon themselves and are captives of the exercise of their innate freedom. But still, providence looks after them from eternity, sees what they do, and disposes rewards and punishments according to what each person deserves.
- Boethius
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