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Thursday Quote Day, Week 21, 2019
On time this time around 
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'Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.'
- Thomas Paine
'The moment we no longer have a free press anything can happen.'
- Hannah Arendt
'World wars have been fought and lost, for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.'
- Alice Walker
'How could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?'
- Friedrich Nietzsche
'There is no other road to faith; if one wishes to escape risk, it is as if one wanted to know with certainty that he can swim before going into the water.'
- Soren Kierkegaard
'True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which everyone can think out for themselves.'
- Arthur Schopenhauer
'Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.'
'Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, and choice is deliberate desire, therefore both the reasoning must be true and the desire right, if the choice is to be good.'
- Aristotle
- Thomas Paine
'The moment we no longer have a free press anything can happen.'
- Hannah Arendt
'World wars have been fought and lost, for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.'
- Alice Walker
'How could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?'
- Friedrich Nietzsche
'There is no other road to faith; if one wishes to escape risk, it is as if one wanted to know with certainty that he can swim before going into the water.'
- Soren Kierkegaard
'True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which everyone can think out for themselves.'
- Arthur Schopenhauer
'Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.'
'Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, and choice is deliberate desire, therefore both the reasoning must be true and the desire right, if the choice is to be good.'
- Aristotle
Thursday Quote Day, Week 21, 2019
On time this time around ........ 'Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.' - Thomas Paine 'The moment we no longer have a free press anything ...
A clearly excellent choice,
there is a reason I placed the quote first and accompanied the post with Thomas Pain's portrait . Cheers, Filip
Polybius (c. 208 – c. 125 B.C.E.) noted for his work "The Histories"
" In everyday life, if people intend to reach a true assessment of someone, to decide whether he is bad or good, they do not base the investigation on those periods of his life when he was untroubled by external circumstances; they look at how he behaved ...
Great statements....
of which some of my previously posted quotes are variants . Of course, freedom of being without restraint by reason and goodwill is a freefall slope to total anarchy. Cheers, Filip
Aaaahhhh,
That one is particularly interesting when you apply it to imparting judgement onto people's actions . Cheers, Filip
