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Propelled by Discomfort
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. ~ M. Scott Peck
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Politics and War : A Means to an End
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. ~ John Adams
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Someone Will Say Anything
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. ~ Cicero
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You’re Both Right
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Group Insanity
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
