“To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. I would suppose that this applies also to that degraded animal species, Homo sapiens. If you look at the work of the ethologists (people who study animal behaviour) the most striking result to me is that all species develop behaviour patterns appropriate to their life styles and evolutionary niches in which they evolve. The happiness is only apparent and not real. Where a drunken person drinks in order to be happy, who can deny that such a person is happy when drunk? But the happiness can become a crutch and can be unhealthy in the long run. LCįor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. The majority of people are idiots, and because of this the few can control them.
#Liela figleaf full
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
In contrast stupidity is forever, and being stupid implies wanting to remain ignorant. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of, and thinking and learning cures the problem of ignorance. “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” Thinking is very upsetting, it tells us things we should rather not know. The greatest shortcoming of human race is our inability to understand the simple arithmetic. “What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of the billions who are its victims.“ Mencken.Įric Sevareid’s Law: “The chief source of problems is solutions”. “It is the nature of human species to reject what is true but unpleasant but to embrace what is obviously false but comforting.” H.L. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forego their use”. The aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way. Mēs esam kā ceļinieki, kuriem svešinieks ir iedevis līdzšinējā ceļa aprakstu, bet nav iedevis tā ceļa aprakstu, pa kuru jāiet, lai nokļūtu pie mērķa. I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Montesquieu, (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689-1755)
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” Mūsu evolūcijas mantojums ir dārgumu krātuve, kur virspusē guļ nederīgais, nepiemērotais un kaitīgais, kurš jāierobežo un jāveido, bet, dziļāk ielūkojoties, katrs var atrast balvas un vērtības, kas ļauj dzīvot izcili un piepildīti. Very few are able to raise above the ideas of the time. Nobody.” - Elizabeth WarrenĮvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.
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