Notable Quotable 71

Apr 14, 2023

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

- Frank Zappa

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

- Ambrose Bierce

The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious of and can see your All.

- Sera J. Beak

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

- Ludwig von Mises

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

- Gaetano Mosca

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

- Sun Tzu

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.

- Abraham Lincoln

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space.

He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

- Albert Einstein

The decline of moral habit produces, in its first stage, a rigid and exalted moralism; and in its second, an immoralism raised to the level of doctrine; sooner or later, it invariably gives birth to the lowest level of immorality.

- Gustave Thibon

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

- Rousseau