#is

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#hinduism #spiritual #intellect

Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#truth #wisdom #education

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school? ↗

— Ian Rankin

#college #education #university #education

You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#kiss-of-snow #love #nalini-singh #strong

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#strong

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ↗

— George Santayana

#history #justice #learning #philosophy #politics

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#education #ignorance #ignorant-people #information #information-is-liberation

The bold code of the transhumanist will rise. That's an inevitable, undeniable fact. It's embedded in the undemocratic nature of technology and our own teleological evolutionary advancment. It is the future. We are the future like it or not. And it needs to molded, guided, and handled correctly by the strength and wisdom of transhumanist scientists with their nations and resources standing behind them, facilitating them. It needs to be supported in a way that we can make a successful transition into it, and not sacrifice ourselves—either by its overwhelming power or by a fear of harnessing that power. You need to put your resources into the technology. Into our education system. Into our universities, industries, and ideas. Into the strongest of our society. Into the brightest of our society. Into the best of our society So that we can attain the future. ↗

— Zoltan Istvan

#politics #science #transhumanism #education

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die. ↗

— C.J. Sansom

#atheism #faith #god #hell #faith

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. ↗

— Malala Yousafzai

#freedom-of-choice #girl-power #islam #women-s-rights #education