Philosophy, Government, Change, Interactions Quotes

PHILOSOPHY
Josiah Royce
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

GOVERNMENT
Alfred North Whitehead
Governments are best classified by considering who are the “somebodies” they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

CHANGE
David Viscott
No one can make you change. No one can stop you from changing. No one really knows how you must change. Not even you. Not until you start.

INTERACTIONS
Oscar Wilde
I like looking at geniuses, and listening to beautiful people.

Belief, Socialism, Failure, Interactions Quotes

BELIEF
Anne Wilson
We lose so much when we try to limit the Creator to our own imagination.

SOCIALISM
Oscar Wilde
Socialism annihilates family life, for instance. With the abolition of private property, marriage in its present form must disappear.

FAILURE
Thomas John Watson
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

INTERACTIONS
Edward Noyes Westcott
I guess the’’s about as much human nature in some folks as the’ is in others, if not more.

Philsophy, Capitalism, Striving, Interactions Quotes

PHILOSOPHY
Karl Heinrich Marx
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

CAPITALISM
Ludwig von Mises
The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

STRIVING
Toni Morrison
If there’s a book you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

INTERACTIONS
John W. Raper
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

Cognition, Media, Degradation, Interactions

COGNITION
Marvin Lee Minsky
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.

MEDIA
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Movies in America have not developed advertising intervals simply because the movie itself is the greatest of all forms of advertisement for consumer goods.

DEGRADATION
Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

INTERACTIONS
Henry A. Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Death, Media, Go For It, Interactions

DEATH

Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements – death.

MEDIA

George Faludy
Most American television stations reproduce all night long what only a Roman could have seen in the Coliseum during the reign of Nero.

GO FOR IT

Guy Finley
Never hesitate to put yourself in a position where you don’t know what to do.

INTERACTIONS

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.