“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”
Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
Source: Listen, Little Man!
“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”
Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
Source: Listen, Little Man!
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
Massachusetts v. United States, 333 U.S. 611, 639-40 (1948) (dissenting)
Judicial opinions
Arnold Zuboff (1946) American philosopher
" My 8 Big Ideas https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286624424_My_8_Big_Ideas" (2011), p. 9
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950) Cuban writer
Source: Dirty Havana Trilogy
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 19 July 1788
1780s
“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Vol. VII, par. 547
Collected Papers (1931-1958)
Context: Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.
“One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”
Iain Banks book The Hydrogen Sonata
Source: The Hydrogen Sonata