"Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Philosophy Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.”

Source : "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.
“I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.”
“In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.”
“Daytime television, you can tell whoâ€™s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either itâ€™s clinics for drying out drunks. Or itâ€™s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or itâ€™s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If youâ€™re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. Youâ€™re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.”
“The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.”
“The key to the remembering that brings and maintains testimony is receiving the Holy Ghost as a companion. It is the Holy Ghost who helps us see what God has done for us. It is the Holy Ghost who can help those we serve to see what God has done for them.”
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.”
“We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.”

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