Ronald Tundang

“The worthiest among human beings, said Diogenes according to Stobaeus (3.86.19), are those who despise learning and prefer a state of ignorance-ignorance understood not in the sense of not knowing anything, but in the sense of dispensing with unnecessary learning and acquiring only the knowledge that is sufficient for a good and simple life. This is what Diogenes identified as the only meaning and purpose of philosophy.”
― Luis E. Navia, Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World

“He who imagines nothing senses no-one but himself; he is alone in the midst of humankind”
― Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology

“Isaiah Berlin understood the well-known saying that “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing” as a metaphor for two styles of thinking.”
― Anthea Roberts, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

“The international economic regime was premised on the prohibition of economic nationalism (protectionism) with exceptions for national security (protection). But if economic security is national security, how can one draw the line between protection, which is allowed, and protectionism, which is prohibited?”
― Anthea Roberts, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters