“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”
Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“On the throne of the world, any delusion becomes fact.”
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 12
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“This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Speech to the House of Commons (8 June 1982) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/60882a.htm <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985) <br class="br">Context: From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.... If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902) U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House
Quoted by George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=5eQ5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22One+of+the+greatest+delusions+in+the+world+is+the+hope+that+the+evils+of+the+world+can+be+cured+by+legislation%22&pg=PA342#v=onepage (1952)
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue
Daniel Dennett (1942) American philosopher
Source: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013), p. 69
Joseph Alleine (1634–1668) Pastor, author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
Source: The Complete Essays
Context: No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 955