Notable Quotable 339

Nov 01, 2024

All the preparations of reason, in what may be called pure philosophy, are directed to three problems only: God, Soul, and Freedom.

- Immanuel Kant

The road to serfdom leads to more government control and dependency.”

- Friedrich Hayek

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

- Dante Alighieri

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:

1- It's completely impossible.

2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing.

3-I said it was a good idea all along.

- Arthur C. Clark

To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

- Dan Millman

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They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

- Gerald Massey

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

- H.L. Mencken

Whatever can be the meaning of this life? If we divide mankind into two large classes, we can say that one works for a living, the other has no need to. But working for one’s living can’t be the meaning of life; to suppose that constantly procuring the conditions of life should be the answer to the question of the meaning of what they make possible is a contradiction. Usually the lives of the other class have no meaning either, beyond that of consuming the said conditions.

- Søren Kierkegaard

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead. Biological reductionism nurtures this ‘living down’, which is why people so readily fall for it. It makes cynicism respectable and degeneracy chic. It abolishes our kind, and with it our kindness.

- Roger Scruton