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+== On War and Peace ==
+
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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." \\
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"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." \\
-â [[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." \\
-â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\
+â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
"I only know one race: the human one." \\
â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." \\
â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\
+â [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Plutarch | Socrates]], circa 400 BC
+
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." \\
â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
"Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." \\
â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]]
-"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 \\
-of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
-if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
-â Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe (1786)
-
-"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
-â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
-
-"Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. \\
-That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you donât notice that the time passes." \\
-â [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]]
-
-"Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\
-â Plato
+== On Philosophy and Religion ==
-âImagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.â \\
-â [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
+When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\
+â [[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"?)
-"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\
-â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\
+â [[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,
+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. \\
â [[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." \\
-â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
+== On Knowledge and Education ==
-"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\
-â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock | Spock]], Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
+"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
+â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
-"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\
-â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
+"Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. \\
+That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you donât notice that the time passes." \\
+â [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]]
-"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\
-â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+"Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\
+â [[http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekTexts&getid=1&query=Pl.%20Resp.%20537c | Plato]]
+
+"If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the \\
+creativity and invention that characterizes children before \\
+they are deformed by adult society." \\
+â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]]
+
+âAt 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.â \\
+â [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+"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 \\
+of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
+if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
+â [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
+
+== On Living a Good Life ==
+
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\
â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\
+â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\
Hack away at the unessential." \\
â [[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." \\
+â [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
+
+"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\
+â [[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." \\
-â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling
+â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling :-)
Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
â [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
+Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
+ â Marcus Tullius Cicero
+
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1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\