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What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark - Henry Ford
What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark - Henry Ford
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are - Anais Nin
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world - Buddha
We are not upset by things - but rather by the view we take of them - Epictetus
Understanding that there is no objective reality, there is no single truth, that no one is actually right is hugely liberating. The world in which you live is your world the one constructed by your mind in order to make sense of what is going on outside it. Our confidence in our interpretation is confused by events in our childhood, perceived pressure from others, social convention, marketing messages and chemical changes in our bodies. Talking with colleagues, clients, friends, reading history or watching movies or dramas we constantly see how internal confusion leads to damaging misjudgement - http://www.authenticbusiness.co.uk/discover/default.aspx
True and False are figures of speech, not attributes of things - Thomas Hobbes
Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of educating is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognising nothing as definitive leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires. And under the semblance of freedom it becomes a prison for each one, for it separates people from one another, locking each person into his or her own "ego" - Pope Benedict XVI, June 2005
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so - Shakespeare (Hamlet)
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life - Karl Popper
There are no facts, only interpretations - Friedrich Nietzsche- Notebooks (Summer 1886 ? Fall 1887) http://www.entropy.in/the-moral-naturalists/