#thou

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easy #escapes #fuss #history #quiet

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deal #great #great deal #kindness #little

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#come #darkness #first #gazing #great

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. ↗

— John Ruskin

#capable #change #does #expressing #incapable

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. ↗

— John Ruskin

#also #give #nothing #thought #unless

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#allowed #form #life #likely #short

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#chief #education #faced #fact #freedom

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#destructive #established #free #great #habit

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #certainty #chief #hesitation #how