"Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen."

-- Ivan Illich

#Learning Quotes #Reality Quotes #Information Quotes

“Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishnessâ€”there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.”
“If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.”
“The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.”

Source : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.1194, Delphi Classics
“My name's Peter. Can I play too?”
“Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.”
“I think if you read the story as bad guy turns good guy, then clearly it is a clichÃ©. But my experience, when I spent three years working with young people in the townships on issues principally around HIV/AIDS, is that people are usually neither entirely good or bad. They are usually variations of both. Just because someone is a carjacker doesn't mean they are a ruthless cold-blooded murderer.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.”
“When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.”

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