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Philosopher George Santayana on why we follow the crowd:
“A man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.”
Puedo imaginarlo todo, porque no soy nada. Si fuese algo, no podría imaginar. El ayudante de contabilidad puede soñarse emperador romano; el Rey de Inglaterra está privado de ser, en sueños, otro rey distinto del rey que es. Su realidad no le deja sentir.
Fernando Pessoa • Libro del desasosiego
—The Europeans believe that liberty is promoted by depriving the social authority of some of its rights; the Americans, by dividing its exercise—Almost
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
✨ Construir en la Era de la Perspectiva
By the accident of my present detachment, I can see the inevitable smash of the philosophies of Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, Nietzsche and Shaw, as clearly as an inevitable railway smash could be seen from a balloon. They are all on the road to the emptiness of the asylum. For madness may be defined as using mental activity so as to reach mental helpl
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
When elections are rare, they expose the State to a violent crisis—When they are frequent, they keep up a degree of feverish excitement—The
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
The truth is that only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticise the state.
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
Debemos aceptar la decepción finita, pero nunca perder la esperanza infinita”. –Martin Luther King Jr.
“No se cansen de ser buenos, aunque ser bueno no sirve para mucho. Sirve para no arrepentirse con uno mismo” –Pepe Mujica.