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“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
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“Unlike the creators of The Matrix and The Truman Show, Huxley doubted the possibility of escape, because he questioned whether there was anybody to make the escape. Since your brain and your “self” are part of the matrix, to escape the matrix you must escape your self. That, however, is a possibility worth exploring. Escaping the narrow definition of self might well become a necessary survival skill in the twenty-first century.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“The most fundamental characteristic of this mysterious God is that we cannot say anything concrete about Him. This is the God of the philosophers, the God we talk about when we sit around a campfire late at night and wonder what life is all about.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― The ^AWorlds of American Intellectual History
― The ^AWorlds of American Intellectual History
“If Europe succeeds in finding such a path, perhaps its formula could be copied on the global level. If the European project fails, however, it would indicate that belief in the liberal values of freedom and tolerance is not enough to resolve the cultural conflicts of the world and to unite humankind in the face of nuclear war, ecological collapse, and technological disruption.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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