Knowledge For Its Own Sake

Knowledge For Its Own Sake

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Be The Light. Know The Truth. Find Your Way.

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14/09/2024

“In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of gods creation. We are Americans, therefore America is God's own country. We are White, and therefore God cursed Ham and his descendants who were black. We are Protestant or Catholic, as the case may be, therefore Catholics or Protestants as the case may be, are an abomination. We are male, therefore women are unreasonable; we are women, therefore men are brute. We are Easterners, therefore West is wild and wooly; or Westerners and therefore East is effete. We work with our brains, and therefore it is the educated classes that are important; or we work with our hands, and therefore manual labor alone gives dignity. Finally, and above all, we each have one merit which is entirely unique: we are Ourself. With these comforting reflections we go out to do battle with the world; without them, our courage might fail. Without them, as things are, we should feel inferior, because we have not learned the sentiment of equality. If we would feel genuinely that we are equals of our neighbors, neither their betters nor their inferiors, perhaps life would become less a battle and we should need less in the way of intoxicating myth to give us Dutch courage.”

~ Bertrand Russel

12/09/2024

“Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. the man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.”

~ Bertrand Russel

10/09/2024

08/09/2024

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05/09/2024

“It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.”

~ Simone Weil

04/09/2024

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06/08/2024

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

—ELIE WIESEL from The N**i Doctors and the Nuremberg Code

23/07/2024

21/05/2024

"Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind."

~ Plato

03/05/2024

“Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness; who see in all things the strength they do not possess; who give to sticks and stones the power to bruise them; who change the beauties of Nature into the dwelling place of ghouls and ogres. Wisdom fears no thing, but still bows humbly to its own Source. While superstition hates all things, wisdom, with its deeper understanding, loves all things; for it has seen the beauty, the tenderness, and the sweetness which underlie Life's mystery.”

~ Manly P. Hall

01/05/2024

“The world is the schoolroom of God. Our being in school does not make us learn, but within that school is the opportunity for all learning. It has its grades and its classes, its sciences and its arts, and admission to it is the birthright of man. Its graduates are its teachers, its pupils are all created things. Its examples are Mature, and its rules are God's laws. Those who would go into the greater colleges and universities must first, day by day, and year by year, work through the common school of life and present to their new teachers the diplomas they have won, upon which is written the name that none may read save those who have received it. The hours may be long, and the teachers cruel, but each of us must walk that path, and the only ones ready to go onward are those who have passed through the gateway of experience.”

~ Manly P. Hall

~ Art by Jake Baddeley

26/04/2024

“Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding. Do not forget, and do not turn aside from the sayings of my mouth. Do not leave it, and it will keep you. Love it, and it will safeguard you. Wisdom is the prime thing. Acquire wisdom; and with all that you acquire, acquire understanding. Highly esteem it, and it will exalt you. It will glorify you because you embrace it. To your head it will give a wreath of charm; a crown of beauty it will bestow upon you.”

~ Solomon

23/04/2024

“Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”

~ Christopher Hitchens

~ Art by Giovanni Maisto

19/04/2024

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

~ Mark Mayers

15/04/2024

“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and su***de, for the poor, envy and murder.”

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

~ Art by Vallin Mattheis

11/04/2024

08/04/2024

“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people’s, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment – once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in – what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”

~ Zadie Smith

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