Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Ideologies capable of influencing and winning the acceptance of great masses of people are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together.
~ James Burnham
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Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
~ Iain Banks
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