— Robert Arnott
Author: Nate
“A Philosopher is a person who loves wisdom and is dedicated to the search for meaning. The pursuit of wisdom is an active, unending process of discovery. The true philosopher is filled with the passion to understand, a process that never ends.”
Don’t waste your time arguing with anyone whose opinion you don’t respect…
— Alex Green “… This is doubly true when the person you’re dealing with is a zealot. (I define a zealot as someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.) You probably have better things to do than bang your head against the wall. Ideally, you want to converse with someone who
the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter
— Winston Churchill
I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world
~ Fred Rogers
We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go
—Seneca
Man is characterized by a number of things – one of ’em is he is the only animal that knows he’s going to die someday. And knowing that he also has an obligation to make the most of whatever time he has. And making the most of it is enormously assisted by reading, by learning about the world. Learning about the past and the present and an ability to look to the future by reading.
— Shelby Foote (around minute 15 of video below)