Notable Quotable 341

Nov 06, 2024

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art... Industry without art is brutality.

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

- Criss Jami

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labour under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

- Stefan Molyneux

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

- Aldous Huxley

To the degree that we commit ourselves to ideology, we are poisoned.

- Terence McKenna

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So how are these competing interests resolved? They logroll and call it democracy. The left and right agree to let each other have their way, provided nothing is done to injure the interests of one or the other. The trick is to keep the balance. Who is in power is really about which way the log is rolling. And there you have the modern state in a nutshell.

- Lew Rockwell

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For what purpose humanity is should not even concern us.

Why you are here, that you should ask yourself. And if you have no ready answer then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals.

- Frederich Nietzsche

If the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection is the systematic attack of these ideas and the propagation and proliferation of true ones.

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

- Suzy Kassem