Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
The quantity of anthropological data discovered by scientists now exceeds any individual’s ability to assimilate it. The division of labor, including intellectual labor, begun thirty thousand years ago in the Paleolithic, has become an irreversible phenomenon, and there is nothing that can be done about it. Like it or not, we have placed our destiny in the hands of the experts. A politician is, after all, a kind of expert, if self-styled. Even the fact that competent experts must serve under politicians of mediocre intelligence and little foresight is a problem that we are stuck with, because the experts themselves cannot agree on any major world issue. A logocracy of quarreling experts might be no better than the rule of the mediocrities to which we are subject. The declining intellectual quality of political leadership is the result of the growing complexity of the world. Since no one, be he endowed with the highest wisdom, can grasp it in its entirety, it is those who are least bothered by this who strive for power.
One Human Minute (1986)
“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
Variant: Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Source: Davidicke.com
Source: “L’illusion wagnérienne”, Portraits et souvenirs, Société d’édition artistique, 1899, 206‒220
“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.”
Source: My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“If you got everything you wanted there would be nothing left for anyone else.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
"3rd Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnj7PlqmJ5o, Youtube (December 10, 2007)
Youtube, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.
