"The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat."

-- Ted Dekker

#Philosophical Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Well, I don't know what image people have of me.”
“My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.”
“For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.”
“Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.”

Source : Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company
“When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, Harvard University Press
“Art is first a seeing and then a revealing”
“What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?”
“Greatness lives on the edge of destruction”

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