Notable Quotable 78

Joel Walbert

May 05, 2023

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

- Alan Perlis

We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one.

- Tamerlan A Kuzgov

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

- Carl Jung

Awareness without action is worthless.

- Phil McGraw

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

- Rand Paul

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

- William Morris

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are.

No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

- L. Neil Smith