Quotes

[Handcar]

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ― Aristotle

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity ― Diderot

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary ― Seneca

 

[Colonel Valerio]

 

[Karlysymon]

Peer review is supposed to be the quality assurance system for science, weeding out the scientifically unreliable and reassuring readers of journals that they can trust what they are reading. In reality, however, it is ineffective, largely a lottery, anti-innovatory, slow, expensive, wasteful of scientific time, inefficient, easily abused, prone to bias, unable to detect fraud and irrelevant.
— Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“Love is probably the most realistic possible understanding of our existence. It is not an illusion. On the contrary, it is reality itself”
-Jacques Ellul

 

[DesertRose]

Allah in Him hope is never dead. In Him love is never lost" .
Yasmin Mogahed Islamic instructor and lecturer

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.”
― Leo Tolstoy

 

[CherrieBlossoms]

 

[CherrieBlossoms]

 

[Colonel Valerio]

 

[CherrieBlossoms]

 

[Orwell's mentor]

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - C.S. Lewis

 

[Handcar]

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am not young enough to know everything. ― Oscar Wilde

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“What seems to be one of the disasters of our time is that we all appear to agree that the nation-state is the norm... Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.”
-Jacques Ellul

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government”
-Tolstoy

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”
-Dorothy Day

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!”
Pierre Joseph Proudhoun

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand”
-Sting @DesertRose

I didn’t get a chance to like your post lol

 

[DesertRose]

I didn’t get a chance to like your post lol

LOL here it is......
@Colonel Valerio I think you will like this one.

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“Capitalism is intrinsically atheistic. Capitalism is godless, not by nature of a philosophy which it does not profess, but in practice (which is its only philosophy), by its insatiable greed and avarice, its mighty power, its dominion.’ – The Roman Observer, 1950s

 

[Colonel Valerio]

“We are ruining ourselves in order to be able to take part in senseless wars of the future or to pay interest on debts we have incurred by senseless and criminal wars of the past. We are dying of hunger so as to secure the means of killing each other.” - Frederic Passy