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The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
-- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Advertising #Capitalism #Craving
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The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass-production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify craving...
-- Aldous Huxley (The Perennial Philosophy)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Advertising #Capitalism #Craving
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager) -
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager) -
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager) -
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager) -
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager) -
All differences between groups have not disappeared; this is obvious. Yet they may progressively decline. Exactly for this reason, they assume increasing importance for individuals. It is the rootless, not the rooted, who fetishize their roots.
-- Russell Jacoby -
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey -
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions) -
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions) -
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions) -
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions) -
If you are calculating your own creativity, then you can't create history.
-- Kontra (@counternotions) -
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Discipline #Endurance #Luck #Talent
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Privacy has no possible chance -- individual autonomy has no possible chance -- against improving communications.
-- Whitfield Diffie (inventor of public key cryptography) -
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain -
Quite often, the peddling of a conspiracy theory is a form of confession: a window into how a suspicious mind thinks the world works.
-- The Economist (Editorial 2/3/18)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheEconomist #Confession #Guilt #ConspiracyTheories
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
-- George Santayana -
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
-- George Santayana -
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
-- George Santayana -
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
-- George Santayana -
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
-- George Santayana -
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-- Erich Fromm -
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing.
-- Murray Bookchin (What is Social Ecology?) -
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
-- H. G. Wells -
The first principal of non-violent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
-- Cesar Chavez⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CesarChavez #CivilDisobedience #Humiliation #NonViolence
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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Trying to plan for the future without a sense of history is like trying to plant cut flowers.
-- Daniel Boorstien -
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
-- Josh Billings -
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of non-violent means to combat evil and advance the good.
-- A. J. Muste⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AJMuste #Democracy #Evil #Good #NonViolence #Violence
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.
-- Moskie (@moskie (Reddit June 2023))⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Moskie #Facebook #Internet #Profit #SocialMedia #Twitter
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Never being out of touch means never being able to get away.
-- David Brooks (Newsweek) -
Keep far from me the delusion that I can accomplish all things.
-- Maimonides (1135-1204) -
The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
-- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ToniMorrison #Fascism #Marketing #Politics #Power
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-- Mark Twain -
Have you considered that if you take the list of things you assume and invert it you would get a far more useful set of assumptions?
-- Richard Caley -
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
-- Peter Ustinov -
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
If we trace the origin of almost any myth or tale we will usually find an actual event, a real setting, or an original conception, a living human being. Let us be wise enough to learn the true history so that we can recognize a myth when we see one.
-- Dee Brown (The American West)