The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?’ And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, ‘Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.’ And we … kill those people.

‘Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.’ It’s just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

Change is never painful; Only resistance to change is painful.
Buddha

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What Money Can Buy
A bed but not sleep
Computer but not brain
Food but not appetite
Finery but not beauty
A house but not a home
Medicine but not health
Luxuries but not culture
Amusements but not happiness
Acquaintance but not friends
Obedience but not faithfulness
Sex but not love

What Money Can Buy

  • A bed but not sleep
  • Computer but not brain
  • Food but not appetite
  • Finery but not beauty
  • A house but not a home
  • Medicine but not health
  • Luxuries but not culture
  • Amusements but not happiness
  • Acquaintance but not friends
  • Obedience but not faithfulness
  • Sex but not love

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liliyi:
Parfois les gens ne veulent pas entendre la vérité parce qu’ils ne veulent pas que leurs illusions soient détruites
- Friedrich Nietzsche -
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~Nietzsche

liliyi:

Parfois les gens ne veulent pas entendre la vérité parce qu’ils ne veulent pas que leurs illusions soient détruites

- Friedrich Nietzsche -

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~Nietzsche

Contempt Prior to Investigation

A case where the misattributed quotes improve on the original. Here are the two misattributions:

Contempt prior to investigation is what enslaves a mind to Ignorance. ~Albert Einstein

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation. ~Herbert Spencer

And, now, here’s the original:

The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to investigation. ~William Paley

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.