#cat

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#butterflies #catches #common #distraction #fatal

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#challenging #education #environment #explore #his

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. ↗

— Paul Valery

#enriched #our #reciprocate

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#education #internet #meaningful #organisation #participation

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#confident #creatures #either #example #fairly

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#advances #ago #century #communication #email

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#confidence #credible #election #fair #free

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#necessary #peace #precondition

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#books #good #good thing #man #quotations