Notable Quotable 314

Aug 09, 2024

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

- George Orwell

Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say: See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.

- Harry Browne

If you want to rise high, use your own legs! Do not let yourselves be carried up, do not sit on the backs and heads of strangers!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.

- African proverb

Love makes duty a pleasure.

- A European thought

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While traditional man roots meaning in transcendence, the worldly man perceives meaning in predominantly materialistic ways. He compensates for his lack of verticality by an excessive horizontality. Lacking quality, he searches for meaning in predominantly quantitative terms. What he lacks in depth, he strives to express in intensity. What he lacks in wisdom, he makes up for in cleverness. What he lacks of love, he pursues in power. What he lacks in compassion, he compensates for in sentimentality. What he lacks in nobility, he strives to express in tawdry celebrity. What he lacks of beauty, he seeks in graphic realism or garish sensationalism. What he lacks in wonder and reverence, he strives to express in idolatry. What he lacks of reality, he seeks in the abstract or the surreal. What he lacks of spirituality, he seeks in hallucinatory experiences or in the occult psychology of pseudospiritualism. What he lacks of religion, he pursues in utopias, progressivism, materialism and scientism.

- Ali Lakhani

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.

- Nicolas Gomez Davila

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

- Plutarch

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson