"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

George Santayana

 black321 wrote:

But Confucius did author the Analects.

God is not the author of confusion, 
but of peace. 

Politicians are a lot like diapers.
They should be changed frequently and for the same reason. 

 JimTreadwell wrote:

Terror ... often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

— Stephen King

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Joseph Campbell

“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Religion is a defense against having a religious experience. 

thinking is difficult,
that’s why most people judge. 

"Everyone has a photographic memory, some people just never have any film".  
- Fortune Cookie

"A sandwich is just a sandwich... 

but a manwich is a MEAL!"

"I fear that one day man will travel to distant planets. 
And then he’ll take his lethal mixture of vice, greed, 
violence and ignorance to those planets too—turning 
them barren and ravaged as we are already doing with Earth." 
— Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

"Our styles must change if we are to master change."

Robert F. Kennedy

"My sayings are a remedy for all your biological ills. Go out of this place and meditate. Perhaps some day your blood will be warm and your bones will grow strong."

GPT-2 AI

Beware of unearned wisdom. Jung

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

 oldviolin wrote: 

shameless bump

and who is morris berman?

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."

Robert A. Heinlein

via technologist and inventor martine rothblatt

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”

― Richard P. Feynman