Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-06-04 Jun 4, 2008The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.~ Anne Morrow LindberghThere exists a “fear of freedom” of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.~ James A. C. BrownMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.~ Oscar Wilde Jun 3, 2008If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.~ ConfuciusWhen we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.~ C. Arthur CampbellHow can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jun 2, 2008If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.~ Carl SchurzI believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian... we can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.~ Chief JosephWe cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.~ Max DePree May 30, 2008Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.~ Baruch SpinozaHitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.~ C. S. LewisTo be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.~ e. e. cummings May 29, 2008What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.~ Friedrich NietzscheIs it not ironical that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape - in short in the milieu of the typical large American secondary school - we attempt to teach 'the democratic system'?~ Royce Van NormanThere are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.~ William Glasser Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print