The world is filled with people who are no longer needed—and who try to make slaves of all of us—and they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare—and without their musical and ideological miscar-riages to compare our Song of freedom to, we’d not have any opposite to compare music with—and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we’d never knows its speed, its power.
Tiffanie DeBartoloStichwörter: truth music woody-gurthie
Keep at it. Persistence does pay dividends. But there is a catch; you gotta believe it before manifestation will validate conviction as [your] truth. And sacrifice is a required path to fulfillment.
T.F. HodgeStichwörter: truth success persistence belief patience faith fulfillment believe conviction believing reward validation dividends manifestation quotes-to-live-by believing-in-yourself manifesting validate
If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word Gods has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of natural, the source of known causes ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods; thus giving a vague definition to an unknown cause, at which either his idleness, or his limited knowledge, obliges him to stop. When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon, the novelty or the extent of which strikes him with wonder, but of which his ignorance precludes him from unravelling the true cause, or which he believes the natural powers with which he is acquainted are inadequate to bring forth; does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe?
Paul-Henri ThiryStichwörter: truth knowledge questioning philosophy religion atheism ignorance materialism gods divinity god-of-the-gaps
For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea. Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away.
Carl SaganStichwörter: wisdom truth reality knowledge learning greece enlightenment ionia
[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
DemocritusStichwörter: truth knowledge understanding
Don't trust something you don't understand !!
jojo1980Stichwörter: truth advice philosophy trust life-philosophy
Neuspeh u našoj sredini učini čoveka budalom. Osramoti ga. Ponizi, isprlja. Ideji se niko ne suprostavlja idejom, nego nipodaštavanjem i psovkom. Znanje se ismejava. Istina mrzi i prezire.
Dobrica ĆosićStichwörter: truth knowledge shame failure contempt
Live for the moment but do it the smart way so you can experience more nice moments !!
jojo1980Stichwörter: life truth advice life-and-living life-philosophy
The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
SocratesStichwörter: wisdom truth knowledge greece prophecy
It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow."
"Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight."
"That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.
Stichwörter: truth insightful religion miracles failure insight guarantees human-sacrifice guarantee failure-is-not-an-option
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