Notable Quotable 333

Oct 14, 2024

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

- Henry Ford

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

- Milton Friedman

We've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.

- Adam Leith Gollner

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.

- Carl Jung

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.

This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The remainder of so-called Christian populations make no distinction between Christian and modern ethics. The ethic of paganism has taken its place on a global scale: namely, what is central to paganism, the worship of dead matter, that is, that life and goodness can come from dead matter, whether it be technology, power or money.

- Matthew Raphael Johnson