MOST PEOPLE FEAR CONFUSION, but I think confusion is the truth and I seek it out. DENNIS COOPER
THE WHOLE WORLD IS MEN’S BLOODY FANTASIES.
WILLIAM BURROUGHS WAS MY MODEL. FOR ME, HE WAS THE FIRST WRITER, THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS WORKING POLITICALLY IN THE FIELD OF LANGUAGE AS POWER. He was questioning language. everybody else was just thinking about it. KATHY ACKER
WHAT IS HATEFUL TO YOU do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole torah. The rest is commentary. HILLEL THE ELDER
IF THERE IS NO STRUGGLE, THERE IS NO PROGRESS.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
WILL DURANT 1885-1981 “The Story of Civilization” (with wife Ariel
IF we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
WAR IS ONE OF THE CONSTANTS of history and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
THE TROUBLE WITH MOST PEOPLE is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
INQUIRY IS FATAL TO CERTAINTY.
SCIENCE without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WHEN LIBERTY exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY 268 OF THE PAST 3,421 YEARS FREE OF WAR.
THE SOUL OF CIVILIZATION is its religion and it dies with its faith.
THOSE who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
TO SPEAK ILL OF OTHERS is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can’t say good and encouraging things, say nothing. nothings often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
MOTHER INDIA IS IN MANY WAYS THE MOTHER OF US ALL. India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother of self-government and democracy.
MOST OF US spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
THOSE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HISTORY ARE DOOMED FOREVER TO REPEAT IT.
TRUTH WILL NOT MAKE US RICH BUT IT WILL MAKE US FREE.
EDUCATION IS THE TRANSMISSION OF CIVILIZATION.
A CIVILIZATION IS BORN STOIC & DIES EPICUREAN.
THE GFREAT SNARE OF THOUGHT is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
SIXTY YEARS AGO I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
THE TIME when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can’t be done.
MAN is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart’s content.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER BUT ONLY WISDOM IS LIBERTY.
THE ONLY REAL REVOLUTION IS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE MIND & the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual and the only real revolutionists are philosophers & saints.
WHEN LIBERTY BECOMES LICENSE, DICTATORSHIP IS NEAR.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Love is the most practical thing in the world. if you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along.
NEVER MIND YOUR HAPPINESS; DO YOUR DUTY.
THERE is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
THE MOST INTERESTING THING IN THE WORLD is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
FREEDOM AND EQUALITY ARE NATURAL BORN ENEMIES.
CIVILIZATION begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
THE FUTURE NEVER JUST HAPPENED. IT WAS CREATED.
THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST OF INDIA IS PROBABLY THE BLOODIEST STORY IN HISTORY.