Notable Quotable 359

Dec 18, 2024

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

- St Augustine

Half the time you think you're thinking, you’re actually listening.

- Terence McKenna

Whoever claims that economic competition represents ‘survival of the fittest’ in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

- George Reisman

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- William James

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

- Jacques Ellul

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Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.

In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorise, to salivate when the bell rings.

- Joost Meerloo

The lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend.

- Carl Jung

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

- James Hollis

A religious myth infuses ordinary aspects of life with enchantment and significance: accidents and coincidences become invested with hidden purposes; our actions in the world acquire the importance of a cosmic mission; our suffering becomes the carrier of critical insights; even objects and people around us acquire a numinous aura.

- Bernardo Kastrup

Today, in the twenty-first century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.

- George Reisman