If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
If you are reading this you can’t possibly complain: mobile phone, internet, English, time to read, friends…Count blessings!
Those of our ancestors who felt compelled to define deity in physical form, sun-worshippers must have been closest to science
Democracy: Rule by a minority clique by manipulating the majority vote.
Human kind follows conviction of reason (atheists), of faith (fanatics), of convenience.
Those who criticize you acknowledge that you are too important for them to ignore you. Empathize, rather than hate them!
One who has yet to fail has yet to take a worthy challenge.
Scarcely a day passes when something doesn’t pinch me with this realization: What a goddamn idiot I must have been to make this mistake so far, or to not have known this, or that, until now. My, my, we don’t ever cease to learn.
When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.