"Ordinary" philosophy

Knowledge means power. (Bacon)

...you accept the world, and you make use of it, you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself. (Huxley)

Externality is a mirror that reflects back to our mind the world our mind has created of the raw materials. But a mirror is a piece of silvered glass. There is back to it. If you scratch off the silvering, you can see through the mirror to the other side. I know that many people do not want to break through. I do, passionately, hungrily. (Steinbeck)

Words are instruments, and their vaguaness I tolerated where is does not impair their utility. (Quine)

Those who have art and knowledge do not need religion. (Goethe)

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. (Russel)

I refuse to accept the cynical nation that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway in to the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger that evil triumphant. (M.L. King)

Languages are not learnt by means of rules but by reading and unconsciously assimilating sentence patterns. (Webbe)

The metaphors people use set the tracks along which thoughts and beliefs will tend to run. Language restricts thoughts just as thoughts manifest in language. (Sanford)

To be should be to love and to be loved.

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. We can be virtuos without knowing who in fact we are. The beings who are merely good are not Good Beings; they are just pillars of society. Faith can never be taken too seriously. For faith is the empirically justified confidence in our capacity to know who in fact we are, to forget the belief-intoxicated Manichee in Good-Beaing. Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God from Belief. (Huxley)

As long as anyone is oppressed noone is really free.

Concience, custom - the first makes cowards, Makes saints of us sometimes, makes human beings. The other makes Patriots, Papists, Protestants, Makes Babbits, Sadists, Swedes or Slovaks, Makes killers of Kulaks, chlorinators of Jews, Makes all who mangle, for lofty motives, Quivering flesh, without qualm or question To mar their certainty of Supreme Service. (Huxley)

I sincerely hope that love is stronger than pride and faith.

Sapere aude/Dare to know! (Kant)