Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another.
Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose,” 1784.
The left really thinks it controls thought and language. And so all they do is vomit up meaningless bullshit that nobody thinks is funny.
Roseanne Barr, on her podcast, explaining to Greg Gutfeld why leftists are no longer the good comedians.
The civil state regarded purely as a lawful state, is based on the following a priori principles:
• The freedom of every member of society as a human being.
• The equality of each with all the others as a subject.
• The independence of each member of a commonwealth as a citizen.These principles are not so much laws given by an already established state, as laws by which a state can alone be established in accordance with pure rational principles of external human right.
Immanuel Kant, Theory and Practice (1791).
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 6.
Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 5.
Certain ills belong to the hardships of human life. They are natural. They are part of the struggle with Nature for existence. We cannot blame our fellow-men for our share of these. My neighbor and I are both struggling to free ourselves from these ills. The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in this struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me.
William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883).