shadrach kabango
Banned via Warnings
“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can’t, because the cosmos is also within us. We’re "made" of star stuff. We are a way that the cosmos can know itself. The journey for each of us begins here. We’re going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits on speed and size, drawn by the music of cosmic harmonies. It can take us anywhere in space and time. Perfect as a snowflake, organic as a dandelion seed, it will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts. Come with me.” - Carl Sagan, Universal Mind
“Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.” – Henry Cantwell Wallace
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe–a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” – Einstein
“A search for knowledge drives out the search for love.” – Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” – Buddha
"If you want to learn something, read about it.
If you want to understand something, write about it.
If you want to master something, teach it." - Yogi Bhajan
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free." - Robert A. Heinlein
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” - Henri Bergson
"It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will." - Evelyn Underhill
"The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. Indeed, lying is the mother of violence. A truthful man cannot long remain violent. He will perceive in the course of his search that he has no need to be violent and he will further discover that so long as there is the slightest trace of violence in him, he will fail to find the truth he is searching." - Gandhi
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
“What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.”- Epictetus
“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.” - John Ruskin
“We are not told that jihad has many definitions, that in general it means struggle, and that the highest form of jihad is the struggle against self.” - The Wisdom Fund
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together." - Evelyn Underhill
"First you make habits, then habits make you." - Yogi Bhajan
"We strut not to convince competitors of our dominance; we strut to convince ourselves." - Matthew Powell
“Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.” – Vernon Howard
"How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?" - Henry David Thoreau
"Men are disturbed not by the things that happen but by their opinion of the things that happened." - Epictetus
"Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern." - William James
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all." - Shakespeare
"It is safe to say that Occidental judgment has been falsified, up to the present, by the need for self-assertion." - Professor Salmony
"True knowledge is action." - Ancient Taoist quote
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
"To confuse the indivisible nature of reality with the conceptual pigeonholes of language is the basic ignorance from which Zen seeks to free us. The ultimate answers to existence are not to be found in intellectual concepts and philosophies, however sophisticated, but rather in a level of direct nonconceptual experience [of reality]." - Robert Sohl and Audrey Carr
"And it is only on those terms, standing aside from any structure or medium, that its principles and lines of force can be discerned. For any medium has the power of imposing its own assumption on the unwary. Prediction and control consist in avoiding this subliminal state of Narcissus trance. But the greatest aid to this end is simply in knowing that the spell can occur immediately upon contact, as in the first bars of a melody." - Marshall McLuhan
“If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.” - Robert A. Heinlein
"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and it has no place in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan
“It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even if it be a scientific one.” - Sigmund Freud
“There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any error. Where science has been used in the past to erect a new dogmatism, that dogmatism has found itself incompatible with the progress of science; and in the end, the dogma has yielded, or science and freedom have perished together.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.” - Morpheus, The Matrix
“A ‘critic’ is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased—he hates all creative people equally.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.” – Henry Cantwell Wallace
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe–a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” – Einstein
“A search for knowledge drives out the search for love.” – Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” – Buddha
"If you want to learn something, read about it.
If you want to understand something, write about it.
If you want to master something, teach it." - Yogi Bhajan
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free." - Robert A. Heinlein
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” - Henri Bergson
"It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will." - Evelyn Underhill
"The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. Indeed, lying is the mother of violence. A truthful man cannot long remain violent. He will perceive in the course of his search that he has no need to be violent and he will further discover that so long as there is the slightest trace of violence in him, he will fail to find the truth he is searching." - Gandhi
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
“What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.”- Epictetus
“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.” - John Ruskin
“We are not told that jihad has many definitions, that in general it means struggle, and that the highest form of jihad is the struggle against self.” - The Wisdom Fund
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together." - Evelyn Underhill
"First you make habits, then habits make you." - Yogi Bhajan
"We strut not to convince competitors of our dominance; we strut to convince ourselves." - Matthew Powell
“Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.” – Vernon Howard
"How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?" - Henry David Thoreau
"Men are disturbed not by the things that happen but by their opinion of the things that happened." - Epictetus
"Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern." - William James
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all." - Shakespeare
"It is safe to say that Occidental judgment has been falsified, up to the present, by the need for self-assertion." - Professor Salmony
"True knowledge is action." - Ancient Taoist quote
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
"To confuse the indivisible nature of reality with the conceptual pigeonholes of language is the basic ignorance from which Zen seeks to free us. The ultimate answers to existence are not to be found in intellectual concepts and philosophies, however sophisticated, but rather in a level of direct nonconceptual experience [of reality]." - Robert Sohl and Audrey Carr
"And it is only on those terms, standing aside from any structure or medium, that its principles and lines of force can be discerned. For any medium has the power of imposing its own assumption on the unwary. Prediction and control consist in avoiding this subliminal state of Narcissus trance. But the greatest aid to this end is simply in knowing that the spell can occur immediately upon contact, as in the first bars of a melody." - Marshall McLuhan
“If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.” - Robert A. Heinlein
"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and it has no place in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan
“It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even if it be a scientific one.” - Sigmund Freud
“There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any error. Where science has been used in the past to erect a new dogmatism, that dogmatism has found itself incompatible with the progress of science; and in the end, the dogma has yielded, or science and freedom have perished together.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.” - Morpheus, The Matrix
“A ‘critic’ is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased—he hates all creative people equally.” – Robert A. Heinlein
