Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
Endless repetition does not make something true.
- Topic: Thinking, Truth
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
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Some of the worst things in my life never happened.
Ignorance never settle a question.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
