Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

Richard Mitchell's Popular Quotes

If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have g…

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When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

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There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

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Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinar…

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The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support…

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There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of s…

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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, howev…

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You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

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Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

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