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— 1. The Decay of Lying —
“Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates Mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.”
“(…)but I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching –that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.”
— Oct 08, 2023 03:41AM
“Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates Mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.”
“(…)but I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching –that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.”
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Beatriz Baptista
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“…one of the results of the extraordinary tyranny of authority is that words are absolutely distorted from their proper and simple meaning, and are used to express the obverse of their right signification. What is true about Art is true about Life.”
— Mar 18, 2024 07:22PM
Beatriz Baptista
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“Individualism exercises no compulsion over man. On the contrary, it says to man that he should suffer no compulsion to be exercised over him. It does not try to force people to be good. It knows that people are good when they are let alone.”
— Mar 18, 2024 07:21PM
Beatriz Baptista
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“The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same.
The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.”
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— Mar 18, 2024 07:21PM
The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.”
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Beatriz Baptista
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“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.”
— Mar 18, 2024 07:21PM
Beatriz Baptista
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“But the past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”
— Mar 18, 2024 07:20PM
Beatriz Baptista
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“But there is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; (all authority is equally bad.”
— Mar 18, 2024 07:20PM
Beatriz Baptista
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“The moment he seeks to exercise authority he becomes the avowed enemy of Art and of himself. Art does not mind. It is he who suffers.”
— Mar 18, 2024 07:19PM
Beatriz Baptista
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“…invite the public to discuss the incident, to exercise authority in the matter, to give their views, and not merely to give their views, but to carry them into action, to dictate to the man upon all other points, to dictate to his party, to dictate to his country, in fact to make themselves ridiculous, offensive and harmful.”
— Mar 18, 2024 07:19PM
