Quotes

In the deep dark the person alone sees light. —Chuang Tzu

Clarice Lispector in her last published text during her life, The Hour of the Star (1977)

"I am absolutely tired of literature ... If I still write it's because I have nothing better to do in the world while I wait for death ... My small success invades me and exposes me to glances on the street. I want to stagger through the mud, my need for abjection I can hardly control, the need for the orgy and the worst absolute delight. Sin attracts me ... I want to be a pig"

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“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.”

― James Madison

“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.”

- Andrew Jackson

"You are a den of vipers and thieves, and I intend to rat you out.”

- Andrew Jackson

"You are a den of vipers. I intend on thrashing you out, and by the Everlasting God I will thrash you out. If individuals only comprehended the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a transformation prior to morning."

- Andrew Jackson

"I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step."

— Thomas Jefferson

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

–Thomas Jefferson

The dogmatic certainty of unbelief. And the constant uncertainty of faith.

- Anna Kamienska, A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook.

Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Sinclair, I don't care how you accomplish Lamb's removal from the public eye. Indeed, I'd rather cease contact with you altogether. But allow me to make this plain. I don't want to see Lamb on the streets again, peddling her Bolshevik fever dreams to my people. Bury her memory, Sinclair. Bury it, and salt the earth.

Andrew Ryan

"We deal the deception here. What we do not deal with is self-deception."

- Queenan

Abraham Lincoln once asked General Winfield Scott this question: "Why is it that you were once able to take Mexico City in three months with five thousand men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with one hundred thousand men?"

"I will tell you," said General Scott. "The men who took us into Mexico City are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond."

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

― John Adams

"The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution."

-Benjamin Franklin

“I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is Orthodox asceticism turned inside out, and asceticism without Grace. At the base of Russian nihilism, when grasped in its purity and depth, lies the Orthodox rejection of the world … the acknowledgment of the sinfulness of all riches and luxury, of all creative profusion in art and in thought.… Nihilism considers as sinful luxury not only art, metaphysics, and spiritual values, but religion also.… Nihilism is a demand for nakedness, for the stripping of oneself of all the trappings of culture, for the annihilation of all historical traditions, for the setting free of the natural man.… The intellectual asceticism of nihilism found expression in materialism; any more subtle philosophy was proclaimed a sin.… Not to be a materialist was to be taken as a moral suspect. If you were not a materialist, then you were in favour of the enslavement of man both intellectually and politically.” *

* N. Berdyaev, Origin of Russian Communism (London, Geoffrey Bles, 1948), p. 45.

Quigley, Carroll. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (pp. 105-106). GSG & Associates Publishers. Kindle Edition.

“Muslims are like the African carp. They breed quickly and they are very violent and they eat their own kind. Even though they are minorities here, we are suffering under the burden they bring us.”― Ashin Wirathu.

For apeiron is not the matter [ὕλη] of limit, but the δύναμις of it, and the limit is not the Form of the infinite, but its existence.

- Proclus, The Platonic Theology (Περὶ τῆς κατὰ Πλάτωνα θεολογίας).

‘οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ὕλη τοῦ πέρατος τὸ ἄπειρον, ἀλλὰ δύναμις· οὐδὲ εἶδος τοῦ ἀπείρου τὸ πέρας, ἀλλὰ ὕπαρξις’

For apeiron is not the matter [ὕλη] of limit, but the δύναμις of it, and the limit is not the Form of the infinite, but its existence.

- Proclus, The Platonic Theology

'For the end of the world is of no other power; there is no such thing as of the end, there is no existence'

Yes, imagination is an essential part of intelligence. Imagination is a cognitive process that allows people to make connections and inferences using their knowledge and past experiences. It can also help people envision what could be, rather than just what is, and come up with new ideas. For example, imaginative people can envision new ways to use a product, or come up with ways to improve it.

Research suggests that more imaginative people, or those who daydream more, are more intelligent. For example, one study found that the "default network," which is associated with daydreaming, was more active in people with higher intelligence than in those with average intelligence.

Some say that imaginative people are always intelligent, but that the opposite isn't always true. For example, many intellectual geniuses, such as Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, and Beethoven, were also very imaginative.

Imagination can also help people develop empathy and understand the world around them. For example, imaginative play can help children learn critical thinking skills, social skills, and how to manage their emotions.

Generative AI is experimental.

(By Google AI)

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