"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well." - Aristotle

Devote the rest of your life to making progress. - Epictetus

"Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

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"Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates." - Theodor Fontane

"How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" - Mark Twain

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” - Euripides

"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude." - Karl Popper

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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."

- Bertrand Russell

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"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." - Aldous Huxley

“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions." - Isaac Asimov

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"For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best."
- Herodotus

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it.”
- Malcolm X

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
- Aldous Huxley

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"He has formed his mind on another's, and the imitative faculty is not itself productive. In other words, his knowledge has not in him arisen out of reason, and although, objectively considered, it is indeed knowledge due to reason, it is yet, in its subjective character, merely historical. He has grasped and kept; that is, he has learnt well, and is merely a plaster-cast of a living man." - Immanuel #Kant, #CritiqueOfPureReason #philosophy #philosophyquotes #criticalthinking #beyourself

"…One always finds one's burden again. But #Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile: Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
- Albert #Camus

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