Notable Quotable 302

Joel Walbert

Jun 26, 2024

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We make excuses for evil and then wonder why more evil happens.

- Mark Passio

Set the bar to the level common mortals call impossible.

If you're not perpetually haunted by the prospect of mediocrity that plagues the herd, you will never push yourself hard enough, you'll remain the same.

Live the kind of life where you visualize your ancestors in your mind's eye and can verily say unto them, "watch me".

- unknown

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

- C.S. Lewis

Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’ — that is the motto of enlightenment.

- Immanuel Kant

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

- unknown

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw

Most people, whether they admit it or not, are conditioned by the mass media, the neo-Church, and they deplore the type of violence that the state deplores and applaud the type of violence that the state practices.

- Albert Meltzer

The world has gone mad, therefore, we are forced to turn inward. The problem is that, for many, if not most, there is nothing to turn to. There is no inner self, but rather a superficial set of masks that are changed as circumstances dictate. Here, avoiding suffering seems to be the only purpose. It comes at the expense of personhood. This is the "mass man", one incapable of rising above the pleasure-pain nexus. They are already dead.

- Matthew Raphael Johnson

To be blunt, the belief in authority serves as a mental crutch for people seeking to escape the responsibility involved with being a thinking human being. It is an attempt to pass off the responsibility for decision-making to someone else: those claiming to have authority.

- Larken Rose

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

- Robert Anton Wilson