#his

I have studied him (Muhammad PBUH) - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it much needed peace and happiness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#islam #knowledge #muhammad #truth #christ

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on). ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#philosophy-of-science #science

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#political-philosophy #revolution #anarchism

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#politics #anarchism

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise. ↗

— Tacitus

#authority #paranoia #anarchism

When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums— where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked. ↗

— Stanley A. Freed

#history #museums #science #science

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way ↗

— John Burdett

#prostitution #the-mind #karma

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'. ↗

— Albert Wolff

#draw #had #his #learned #made

Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end. ↗

— Anonymous

#dhammapada #theravada #buddhism

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things. ↗

— Hippocrates

#religion #science #skepticism #men