"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."

-- Baruch Spinoza

#Philosophical Quotes #Learning Quotes #Past Quotes

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.”
“To control the mind with force is like putting a viper in a basket.”
“Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought.”

Source : "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.
“When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.”
“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”
“Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.”
“When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.”
“If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.”

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