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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]] @@ -18,71 +17,93 @@ 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]] -"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." \\ -— Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe (1786) - -"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\ -— [[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 don’t notice that the time passes." \\ -— [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]] - -"Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\ -— Plato +== On Philosophy and Religion == -“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” \\ -— [[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." \\ +— [[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." \\ -— [[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." \\ +— [[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. \\ — [[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]] +== On Knowledge and Education == -"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 +"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] -"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.]] +"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 don’t notice that the time passes." \\ +— [[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." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +"Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\ +— [[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." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]] + +“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 "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ — [[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." \\ +— [[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." \\ — [[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 +Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. + — Marcus Tullius Cicero + --- 1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\