2014 / year of the wood horse

“They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it, in relation to eternity, that they view the events of the world as we do those of a play.” ― René Descartes

The limits

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The limits of my picture means.... the limits of my world.” ― pbtoman

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” ― Max Planck

original, the daringly

 “Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.” ― Thomas Mann

“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.” ― Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

debauch the currency

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.” ― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

first freethinker

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.” ― Mikhail Bakunin

“It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.” — Niall Ferguson

the intrepid

“Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards." ― Caterina Sforza

“American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.” ― Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

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the mud

“He who builds on the people, builds on the mud” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)” ― Francis Bacon

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“Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.” ― M. Scott Peck

“The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

poor examiners-think?

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.” ― Sigmund Freud

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.” ― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.- Thomas Carlyle

is vanity, nothing

“All is vanity, nothing is fair.” ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

The Way We Live Now

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.-The Way We Live Now, ch. 84. (1875)~Anthony Trollope

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“Life is so unlike theory.” ― Anthony Trollope

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ardent revolution

“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.― Mikhail Bakunin [Hitler, Stalin, Mao]

the mind is so absorbed

Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments.~Ludwig Wittgenstein

The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads — Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.~Spinoza