“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time
Source: The Fire Next Time
“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.”
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Lewis H. Lapham (1935) American journalist
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 142
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Does scope for individual development, for example, consort with idea of equality?”
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) British sociologist
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VII, The State And The Individual, p. 74 .
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
As quoted by James Baldwin, “Highroad to Destiny,” a chapter in Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile, edited by C. Eric Lincoln, New York, NY, Hill & Wang, 1993, p. 97, (Rev. King speech to a black congregation in St. Louis), reprinted from the February, 1961 issue of Harper’s magazine under the title: “The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King.”
1960s
“We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.”
Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875–1949) President of Stanford University
"Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, A Gentleman and a Scholar", Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1949
“Being religious equals being extremely loving, and being extremely loving equals being religious.”
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
[Mizan al-Hikmah, Muhammadi Reishahri, Muhammad, Dar al-Hadith, 2010, 2, Qum, 425]
Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
Twitter, 17 November 2013; quoted in "Ricky Gervais Is PETA’s Person of the Year," PETA (23 December 2013) https://www.peta.org/blog/ricky-gervais-petas-person-year/
Aristotle book Posterior Analytics
Book I, Part 25
Also known as Occam's razor or the principle of parsimony / economy (lex parsimoniae)
Richard McKeon (tr.) (1963), p. 150
Posterior Analytics
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) American author and socialist
Masthead, from Bellamy's newspaper The New Nation. Quoted in Charles Allan Madison, Critics and Crusaders: Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom, Transaction Publishers, 1948.