Jon Johnson

“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.”
― John Dee, The Hieroglyphic Monad

“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.”
― Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”
― Ralph Miliband, Marxism and Politics

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza