QUOTE A DAY - May 27, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain... In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
--Richard P. Feynman

Militarism and violence are diseases. It does not matter under what guise they appear. Renegade jihadists, Shiite death squads, Sunni militias, Saddam's Baathists and secret police, Kurdish Peshmerga rebels, al-Qaida cells, gangs of kidnappers and the U.S. Army 101st Airborne are all infected with the same virus.
--Chris Hedges, Journalist

For it has been widely believed, and in our century more than any other, that rationality, logic, the scientific approach, call for a society which is centrally organized, and planned and ordered as a whole. Popper has shown that this, besides being authoritarian rests on a mistaken and superseded conception of science. Rationality, logic and a scientific approach all point to a society which is 'open' and pluralistic within which incompatible views are expressed and conflicting aims pursued.
--Bryan Magee, "Popper"


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
On such Journeys you are prevented from going astray by some recognized road and by questions put to local people, but on this one all the most well-trodden and frequented paths prove the more deceptive. Accordingly, the most important point to stress is that we should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go. And yet there is way where others go, not where we ought to go. And yet there is nothing that brings greater trouble on us than the fact that we conform to rumor, thinking that what has won widespread approval is best, and that, as we have so many to follow as good, we live by the principle, not of reason, but imitation. What follows from this is that men are piled high, one on top of another, as they rush to their ruin.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
--Richard Buckminster Fuller

It is not just that American soldiers come and kill. That is horrible enough. You have to ask what will happen to the children growing up around this violence. Iraq has been destroyed. The Iraqi soul has been disfigured.
--Hassan Blassim, Iraqi author of "The Corpse Exhibition"

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
--Richard Buckminster Fuller


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

On such Journeys you are prevented from going astray by some recognized road and by questions put to local people, but on this one all the most well-trodden and frequented paths prove the more deceptive. Accordingly, the most important point to stress is that we should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go. And yet there is way where others go, not where we ought to go. And yet there is nothing that brings greater trouble on us than the fact that we conform to rumor, thinking that what has won widespread approval is best, and that, as we have so many to follow as good, we live by the principle, not of reason, but imitation. What follows from this is that men are piled high, one on top of another, as they rush to their ruin.

ANSWER: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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