Intuition and concepts constitute … the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Emmanuel Kant
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
Elisabeth Kenny
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.
Felix Adler (1851-1933)
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light [...]
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week.
George Bernard Shaw, writer
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda, American actor
If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to
think and speak for himself.
Louis J Halle, The Ideological Imagination, 1972
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values…and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old fashioned Constitution of the United States – and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. American Writer
