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A quotation from Henry Commager

If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review

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A quotation from Henry Commager

If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review

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A quotation from Henry Commager

If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

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A quotation from Henry Commager

If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

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💬 ...true happiness can be found only when shared with others..."

- Into the Wild (2007 film)
Wikipedia page #Quote

#ChrisMcCandless
aka "Alexander Supertramp"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(film)#Flashforward

#IntoTheWild #Film #Movie #Quote #2007 ChrisMcCandless #Story #Civilisation & #Happiness

💬 MY COMMENT
This next part from #Wikipedia show a mistake in thinking by Chris or just normal part of leaving and thinking that 'going back' is going to be any better than before... it's mostly the desperation we've had going back to #family mostly from a cold world and friends are not much better either.

Frankly because we're #desperate we think it's a good idea otherwise we would leave them to it because even after a nice time (or not, both ways) we have to move on and they reached their limits too probably in #life. So they usually are not for us (we don't choose our #parents probably).

Also many are unhealthy unwise people sometimes - and just natural in #unprogressive #society (deliberate #state #design) to spend too long if everyone is #UNthinking people (just followers).

So after feeling alone seems a good idea to go back but after a week or 2 isn't (again) hence this part of the story I think which would have been short lived anyway...

💬 "...and he seeks to return from the wild to his friends and family. "

A quotation from Orwell, George:

«
Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthdoxy is unconsciousness.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/16450/

#quote #quotes #quotation #belief #orthodoxy #reflex #thinking #thought #unconsciousness #unthinking #thoughtlessness

A quotation from Orwell, George:

«
Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthdoxy is unconsciousness.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/16450/

#quote #quotes #quotation #belief #orthodoxy #reflex #thinking #thought #unconsciousness #unthinking #thoughtlessness

A quotation from Orwell, George:

«
Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthdoxy is unconsciousness.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/16450/

#quote #quotes #quotation #belief #orthodoxy #reflex #thinking #thought #unconsciousness #unthinking #thoughtlessness

Selling feature of this whole chicken is, and we are quoting what is printed across the front of the bag in all caps:

> FED A VEGETARIAN DIET

We have reached peak humanity folks – or is that "Peck" humanity.

#darkHumor #peakHumanity #peckHumanity #pun #unthinking #soyFedChicken #chicken #nonOrganicFood #advertising