The 21st Century - Renaissance or Middle Ages?
In this video presentation, I the postion that WE, as a people, are on the brink of a Cultural Revolution where we stand at the crossroads to make a fundamental choice: freedom or slavery, peace or war, love or hate, reason or faith - anrchism or statism. Will man let folly trump wisdom?
MAN'S WISDOM:
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
William Temple
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
William Temple
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
William Temple
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
William Temple
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
William Temple
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
William Temple
MAN'S FOLLY:
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
Shelby Foote
One man's folly is another man's wife.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Pliny the Elder
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Atom Egoyan
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Joseph Roux
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.
John Woolman
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Derek Jarman
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn
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Shelby Foote on William Faulkner and the American Southby Loumademe7,845 views
That's a good analysis of people's attitude towards the NAP. Where it hurts me most is that it's just so obvious. I always knew cops have no right to do what they do. Well anyways, get going on the Doherty painting!
alistairproductions 7 months ago