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"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." \\ @@ -6,11 +8,8 @@ "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\ -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again -When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\ -— [[https://saudialchemist.org/2007/11/24/yes-i-am-a-muslim-a-christian-and-a-jew/ | Gandhi]] (but didn't he also say "God has no religion"?) - -"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\ -— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]] "I only know one race: the human one." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] @@ -18,12 +17,31 @@ When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Budd "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." \\ — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\ +— [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Plutarch | Socrates]], circa 400 BC + "Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." \\ — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] "Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]] +== On Philosophy and Religion == + +When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\ +— [[https://saudialchemist.org/2007/11/24/yes-i-am-a-muslim-a-christian-and-a-jew/ | Gandhi]] (but didn't he also say "God has no religion"?) + +"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] + +"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. \\ +All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, \\ +lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\ +the individual towards freedom. \\ +— [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]] + +== On Knowledge and Science == + "I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\ No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\ The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\ @@ -41,44 +59,40 @@ That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such e "Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\ — Plato -“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” \\ +“At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\ +When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\ +In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\ +Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\ +For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\ +It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\ — [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 -"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] - -"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. \\ -All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, -lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\ -the individual towards freedom. \\ -— [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]] - -"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] - -"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\ -— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock | Spock]], Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - -"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]] - -"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] - "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] + +== On Living a Good Life == + "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\ — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] + "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\ Hack away at the unessential." \\ — [[https://www.brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/28/52-hack-away-the-unessentials | Bruce Lee]] +"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] + +"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock | Spock]], Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan + On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\ a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, \\ "The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\ -— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling :-) Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\ — [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC -- 2.25.1