Passivité
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Mots-clés : pensée, penser
Citations
Ayn Rand
- "A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite." A Rand
- "Ideas are the meaning of life, the only things that make a human life, as distinguished from an animal one." A Rand
- In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to think or to evade that effort. - A Rand
- One cannot force men -- or nations -- to live as human beings if they prefer to be swine in a collectivist pig pen. A Rand
- The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation - A Rand
- [T]he vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another. A Rand
- There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think - A Rand
- When personal judgment is inoperative or forbidden, men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice. A Rand
- When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. - A Rand
Hannah Arendt
- «C'est dans le vide de la pensée que s'inscrit le mal.» H Arendt
- "Les hommes qui ne pensent pas sont comme des somnambules." H Arendt
- La société de masse ne veut pas la culture mais les loisirs . H Arendt
Misc
- "Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do". ~Bertrand Russell
- "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." ~ Thomas Edison
- “5% of the people think; 10% of the people think they think; and the other 85% would rather die than think.” - Thomas Edison