Two Thoughts (7 July - 13 July)
Sunday, 7 July
Two thoughts from Paul Feyerabend
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."
"Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation."
Monday, 8 July
Two thoughts from Richard Rorty
“Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
Tuesday, 9 July
Two thoughts from Voltaire
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
Wednesday, 10 July
Two thoughts from Julius Evola
“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”
“Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all other action.”
Thursday, 11 July
Two thoughts from Emil Cioran
“Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.”
“A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.”
Friday, 12 July
Two thoughts from Nicolas Chamfort
“The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.”
“Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.”
Saturday, 13 July
Two thoughts from Elena Ferrante
"The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose."
“It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.”
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dear jim,
thanks as always for this bounty of beautiful quotes! some faves of mine today:
Richard Rorty: “Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
Julius Evola: “Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all other action.”
Emil Cioran: “A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.”
Elena Ferrante: “It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.”
thanks again for sharing!
love
myq