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"The more precious an idea is, the less it matters where it came from."

Sertillanges

If you ask people to define 'anarchy' they will conjure up visions of Cossacks with bombs. This is misguided and unfortunate.

To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and
that states necessarily employ aggression.

Language is the means whereby our thoughts are formed. Without some form of language our thinking would remain forever mired in ignorance and darkness.

The more well developed our language skills, including our vocabulary, the broader and deeper our thinking becomes.

Therefore, if you wish to improve your thinking, expand your language comprehension.

While most third world countries attempt to shed the backwardness which a caste system exemplifies, western societies, and especially the US are rapidly adopting a modern caste system where certain groups are lauded (blacks, homosexuals, transgenders, etc.) while others (Asian and Caucasian males) are derided.

It is no accident that the front line in the battle for civilization is that of vocabulary. How words are used and understood determines to no small extent what we think and surmise about situations, circumstances and policies. It is important that we use the 'right' words and reject the wrong ones, which serve to obfuscate issues and misguide us.

It is perfectly reasonable and acceptable to reject myths and superstitions while embracing those values they call attention to.

There is a strong sense in which arguing against something which does not exist lends a credence to it which is undeserved.

When I became an atheist, several well intentioned Christian friends asked if I was angry with God. I replied that being angry with someone who does not exist makes absolutely no sense.

All anti-discrimination laws are immoral and unethical. That includes the 'Civil Rights Act of 1964'. The reason being that they undermine the only 'absolute' right we humans possess; the right to private property and its protection. No compromise can be tolerated regarding this absolute right. To do so sets in motion the destruction of freedom and western civilization which supports it.

Wisdom is knowing what we don't know, and how to best use what we do.

A 2020 survey concluded that 30% of women and 20% of men say their lives are meaningless. I believe that a lack of personal meaning and purpose in life is why so many people are unhappy and as Thoreau suggested lead lives of quiet desperation.

"What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance."

Earnest Becker

"We are not given a short life, but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it... Life is long if you know how to use it."

Seneca

"The good life is one guided by reason and motivated by love."

Bertrand Russell

"So when our mortal frame shall be disjoin'd
The lifeless lump uncoupled from the mind,
From sense of grief and pain we shall be free;
We shall not feel, because we will not be. Nay, though our atoms should revolve by chance,
And matter leap into the former dance;
Though time our life and motion could restore.
And make our bodies what they were before,
What gain to us would all this bustle bring?
The new-made man would be another thing."

Lucretius

"Live a good life. If there be gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

Marcus Aurelius

"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Philip K. Dick

We live by looking forward, but we understand by looking backward.

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

Albert Einstein

No interpretation of a situation is the absolute truth, but only an interpretation.

"You are wherever your thoughts are, so make sure your thoughts are where you want to be."

Rabbi Nachman