One of the saddest lessons of history is this:
If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.
|Carl Sagan
"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
- Sun Tzu
"Difficile est, quod tam facile creditur, ab hominibus exigere, ut nihil umquam credant, nisi exploratum sit."
"It is difficult to demand from men something which they believe so easily, that they should never believe anything unless it has been explored."
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When plunder becomes the means of livelihood for a community, a group of people bound by social ties, they soon create a law that sanctions it and a morality that glorifies it.
― Frédéric Bastiat, 1850
Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”
— Hannah Arendt
“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Maturity begins when you stop caring about being right and embrace the comfort and freedom of the moment.
—Epictetus
"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
-Sun Tzu
When the time comes to praise, praise in such a way that you will not be humiliated when the time comes to criticize.”
Kâbusname; Keykâvus 11th century
There is no avoiding war,it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy
|Niccole Machiavelli, 1502
"One of the best lessons you can learn in life is how to stay calm.
Calmness is a superpower..."
—Bruce Lee
“Three desires make you a slave to others: the desire to be loved, the desire to be admired, the desire to be appreciated.”
—Osho
We do not grieve for things we have never had; sorrow comes only and always after pleasure has been experienced; the knowledge of what has been had is added to the memory of past joys.
|Etienne De La Boetie, Discours sur la Servitude Volontaire
"To an intellectually superior person, solitude provides a dual benefit: first, to be with oneself, and second, to be without others."
Arthur Schopenhauer |
Two benefits means as follows:
1) Freedom to be alone with one's inner world
2) Freedom from the burden of ordinary social relationships
There are two ways to be fooled.One is to believe what isn’t true.The other is to refuse to believe what is true.
|Soren Kierkegaard
"Thinking is indeed painful. Because it leads to permanent creations and doubt. Thinking seems like a burden to man. So, to escape from being a very big part of man, they become hypnotized by an ideology or belief of their own."
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
In a well-governed state, punishments are few. This is not because there are many pardons, but because of the small number of criminals.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du Contrat Social,Book 2, Chapter 5,1762
“As long as you are praised, you believe that you are not yet walking your own path, but on someone else.”
Friedrich Nietzsche | The Wanderer and His Shadow
“Honest anger is better than hypocritical kindness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"What is worse than a bad investment is a bad investment made with borrowed money."
| D.Chilton
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“Hitler’s most terrible crime was that he made lying and deception respectable, and that what had been considered crimes for thousands of years was accepted as state art and the art of life.”
Stefan Zweig
(Diaries, p.456)
“Positions and titles may make people important, but they do not make them valuable. The fundamental measure of being elite is being valuable.”
D.Ergil
"It is as dangerous to give power to an immoral man as it is to give a sword to a madman."
— Pythagoras
Everything passes but quality literature remains. What has changed from Homer to here but Homer has not changed.
A.Altan - The Special History of Loneliness
“If you remain silent against injustice, you will lose your honor along with your rights.”
Hz. Ali
Hate and fear are lies.They turn us against each other.Those are the lies that make us slaves.
|Quote from the movie Ben-Hur
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