a pretensa “verdade sufocada” não passa de uma coleção de mentiras convenientes.
“How we treat one another matters, and not just in a "it's nice to be nice" kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.”
― Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
― Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.”
― Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
― Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
“Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.”
― Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
― Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
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