Michael Johas teener

“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery that launched the Scientific Revolution was the discovery that humans do not know the answers to their most important questions. Premodern traditions of knowledge such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism asserted that everything that is important to know about the world was already known. The great gods, or the one almighty God, or the wise people of the past possessed all-encompassing wisdom, which they revealed to us in scriptures and oral traditions. Ordinary mortals gained knowledge by delving into these ancient texts and traditions and understanding them properly. It was inconceivable that the Bible, the Qur’an or the Vedas were missing out on a crucial secret of the universe – a secret that might yet be discovered by flesh-and-blood creatures.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff of the Army22”
― Gregory Fontenot, On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom

“If this is so, after all, hallucinations may not be pathological manifestations of the psyche, but healing manifestations.”
― Marc Aixalà, Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

“Now, personally, I’d have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we’re the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn’t have one.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree