#mis

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#cave #content #difference #emerged #images

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#entire world #fine #i #lack #long

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#criticize #degree #democracy #important #mistakes

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democratization #east #exists #middle #middle east

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. ↗

— Robert Higgs

#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. ↗

— George Borrow

#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. ↗

— James Boswell

#every #every man #exquisitely #happy #man

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#economy #environment #good #i #locks

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

#available #became #catalog #free #hijacked