The aim of our studies must be the direction of our mind so that it may form solid and true #judgments on whatever matters arise

#ReneDescartes

#Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world

#VaclavHavel

Clear #thinking and self-importance cannot logically coexist

#Epictetus

I want to know God's thoughts ... the rest are details

#AlbertEinstein

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an #idea whose time has come

#VictorHugo

The people's difficulty in being governed Is due to the meddling of their ruler So they are difficult to govern

#LaoTzu

There is always something #taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion

#AlanWatts

It doesn't matter what rights you have under the #Constitution, if government can punish you exercising those rights. It doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government power, if they exceed those limits without any adverse consequences

#ThomasSowell

#Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them

#WEdwardsDeming

But so long as men are not trained to withhold #judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets

#BertrandRussell

Most #ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know

#AldousHuxley

The possibility of seeing down into something goes on #forever and unnamedever. When you work with mantras, you can learn to hear similar infinite depths in sound

#AlanWatts

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever

#MarkTwain

It is therefore predictable that a group of #frightened people will end up becoming still more fearful as a result of internal conversations

@CassSunstein

We have to prove our worth and #justify our existence anew each day

#BruceLee

#Peer review is not really the point; provoking people to think in new ways about something is really the point

@CurryJA

We have to remember that civil #disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective

@Snowden

Luckily, as the #history of philosophy testifies, humans have a gift for self-deception, and thrive in ignorance of their natures

#JohnGray

Nature cares nothing for #logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

#IvanTurgenev

An evil #enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes

#SunTzu