wisdom

"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

"Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science."

"It's a good thing a lot of people speak foreign languages, otherwise those people would have no one to talk to."

"Saving the biosphere" depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs only in the noosphere. A…"

"Such was the erosion of demography and prosperity that after the capture of Brahmanabad, "all people, the merchants, artisans and agriculturists were divided separately into their respective classes, …"

"The Wit and Wisdom of WhiteheadLink Appears Dead"

"Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practic…"

"What strikes one here above all is the crudely empirical conception of profit derived from the outlook of the ordinary capitalist, which wholly contradicts the better esoteric understanding of Adam Sm…"

"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"

"Can't stop the pass or the run. Otherwise, we're in great shape."

"Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our counc…"

"We find then in this arrangement an admirable harmony of the world, and a dependable, harmonious interconnexion of the motion and the size of the paths, such as otherwise cannot be discovered. For her…"

"Sound is the connecting energy to our African past. When thrown into the Middle Passage and the babble of languages, then given this foreign language, English, that had to be learned by ear in this fo…"

"In contrast to Smith’s incomplete modeling, his follower, David Ricardo, provides a coherent setting— basically, the first macroeconomic model—that can be tested, modified, and applied. Although Ricar…"

"There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the wisdom of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to realit…"

"However, all the deductions that had to buttress any of these non-Indian Homeland hypotheses, can be shown to be either immature and superseded by newer insights or linguistically illegitimate: they c…"

"Instead of understanding the crisis facing the country and helping the country, the opposition wants to weaken the country by its deeds."

"His majesty recollected the celebrated quack doctor, who when asked why his patrons were more numerous than those of regular practitioners, replied, that he was patronised by the fools, who are numero…"

"The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster."

"We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain."