You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...
Wilhelm ReichTags: life money love freedom teachers opinion security beethoven politicians workers bach diplomats
There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called faith. And faith is not something you can prove; faith is personal opinion. Uh, when you're dealing with something with certainty, like, y'know, science or logic, you don't have the--there's no wiggle room; that's why history is not filled with warring math cults, y'know, because you can settle the issue; you can prove something to be right or wrong, and that's the end of the argument: next case. Whereas, when you're dealing with faith, you can forever argue your point, or another point, because you're dealing with intangibles. Personally, I think, faith is what you ask of somebody when you don't have the goods to prove your point.
Tom QuinnTags: religion faith atheism opinion mathematics schisms
Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
Bobbe SommerTags: success happiness unique opinion modesty egotism regard self-destruction precondition sef
Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.
Toba BetaTags: belief ambiguity opinion ideas idea apriority
Only those who'd changed could see
things from a different point of view.
Tags: change opinion grown-up different-point-of-view others-perspective
I am crushed by your poor opinion
But will endeavor to carry on.
Tags: opinion public-perception
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin DisraeliTags: politics honesty opinion obama
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz KafkaI am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.
Charles DickensTime obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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