66 quotes found
“All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.”
“Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.”
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
“Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.”
“Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task...”
“Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.”
“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they tr...”
“...Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rej...”
“It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available.”
“You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.”
“Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.”
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard...”
“...when we cease asking questions, when we stop being self-critical, and when we no longer engage with others, then we surrender our ability to grow--to progress. Let's begin the conversation.”
“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
“Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts...”
“Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, its not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make ...”
“I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.”
“The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their...”
“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”
“Scientists are aware that all the lab-rat tests in the world, once compiled, can tell us only how lab rats act when tested, and that is how we must begin to view school: all that you can learn in a...”
