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2014 August 22
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"Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars." |
"A nation of well informed men
who have been taught to know and prize the rights
which God has given them cannot be enslaved.
It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." |
"I have learned that success is to be measured
not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." |
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2014 August 21
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." |
"And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak." |
"Increasingly constructive doubt is
the sign of advancing civilization." |
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2014 August 20
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"The deterioration of every government
begins with the decay of the principles
on which it was founded." |
"Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species." |
"When people are free to do as they please,
they usually imitate each other." |
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2014 August 19
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"There is no way; we make the road by walking it." |
"Laissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme."
"(Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)" |
"I was put in this world to change it." |
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2014 August 18
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"At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page
of which book each school child in Italy is studying." |
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