Quote of the day...........

If you would be a real seeker after truth,

it is necessary that at least once in your life

you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

-- Rene Descartes
(1596-1650) French philosopher
Source: Principles of Philosophy, 1644

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[When] Men are not allowed to think freely

about chemistry and biology,

why should they be allowed to think freely

about political philosophy?

-- Auguste Comte.
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte(1798-1857) 
French philosopher, founder of Positivism and Sociology
Source: The Positive Philosophy, 1830-40

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The free-thinking of one age is 

the common sense of the next.

-- Matthew Arnold (1822-1887)

Quote of the day.............

The heart of the liberal philosophy

is a belief in the dignity of the individual,

in his freedom to make the most of his capacities

and opportunities according to his own lights...

This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense;

in their inequality in another."

-- Milton Friedman

(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, 
economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan,
 "ultimate guru of the free-market system"
Source: Capitalism and Freedom, 1962

Quote of the day.........

You make men love 

their government and 

their country by giving them 

the kind of government 

and the kind of country 

that inspire respect and love; 

a country that is free and unafraid, 

that lets the discontented talk 

in order to learn the causes of 

their discontent and end those causes, 

that refuses to impel men to spy 

on their neighbors, 

that protects its citizens vigorously 

from harmful acts 

while it leaves the remedies for 

objectionable ideas 

to counter-argument and time.

-- Zecharian Chafee, Jr.(1865-1957)
Source: Free Speech in the United States, 1942

Quote of the day.....

The highest manifestation of 

life consists in this:

that a being governs its own actions.

A thing which is always subject to 

the direction of another is 

somewhat of a dead thing.

-- Saint Thomas Aquinas(1225-1274).

 Italian philosopher and theologian

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To learn who rules over you,

simply find out who you are 

not allowed to criticize.

-- Voltaire
[François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

Quote of the day.....

A wise man neither suffers 

himself to be governed,

nor attempts to govern others.

-- Jean de la Bruyere.

quote of the day..........

May the Declaration of Independence

be to the world, what I believe it will be 

(to some parts sooner,

to others later, but finally to all)

the signal of arousing men to burst 

the chains under which monkish ignorance and 

superstition had persuaded them 

to bind themselves, and to assume 

the blessings and security of self-government. 

That form which we have substituted, 

restores the free right to the unbounded

exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. 

All eyes are opened, or opening, 

to the rights of man.

-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826). 

US Founding Father, 3rd US President
drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Quote of the day.......

No man is justified in doing evil

on the ground of expediency.

-- Theodore Roosevelt(1858-1919) 

26th US President.

Carpe diem.......

Next to the swans nesting

By the lake side - eerie and surreal

Under the shadows of giant trees

That stood mourning through the night

Keeping a vigil, lighting a candle

People flowing in the streets streaming

The colored chalks glowing

With thoughts and words flowing

For good will hunting

There rises a memorial for 

The spirit’s resting.

Quote of the day........

Finally, the fundamental flaw, 

which will ultimately destroy 

this prohibition as it did the last one, 

is that criminal sanctions cannot, 

and should not attempt to, 

prohibit personal conduct 

which does no harm to others. 

-- Judge Robert Sweet
(U.S. District Ct., N.Y.)
Source: February 12, 1996, National Review

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From the standpoint of freedom of 

speech and the press,

it is enough to point out that 

the state has no legitimate interest in 

protecting any or all religions 

from views distasteful to them...

It is not the business of government 

to suppress real or imagined attacks 

upon a particular religious doctrine.

-- Justice Tom C. Clark.
(1899-1977) U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: Burstyn v. Wilson, 1952

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action 

according to our will within limits 

drawn around us by 

the equal rights of others. 

I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' 

because law is often but the tyrant's will, and

always so when it violates 

the rights of the individual.

-- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President.
(1743-1826), US Founding Father.
Drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Being Sad..........

In rejecting or in even fighting, being sad

will only lead one to be silly.

Roosevelt's Four freedoms ......

If the Congress maintains these principles, 

the voters,putting patriotism 

ahead of pocketbooks, 

will give you their applause.

In the future days, 

which we seek to make secure, 

we look forward to a world founded upon 

four essential human freedoms.


The first is freedom of speech and expression —

everywhere in the world.


The second is freedom of every person to 

worship God in his own way — 

everywhere in the world.


The third is freedom from want — 

which, translated into world terms, 

means economic understandings 

which will secure to every nation 

a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — 

everywhere in the world.


The fourth is freedom from fear – 

which, translated into world terms, 

means a world-wide reduction of armaments 

to such a point and in such a thorough 

fashion that no nation will be in 

a position to commit an act of 

physical aggression against any neighbor —

anywhere in the world.


That is no vision of a distant millennium. 

It is a definite basis for a kind of world 

attainable in our own time and generation.


That kind of world is the very antithesis of 

the so-called new order of tyranny 

which the dictators seek to create with 

the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose 

the greater conception – 

the moral order. 


A good society is able to face schemes of 

world domination and foreign revolutions 

alike without fear.


Since the beginning of our American history, 

we have been engaged in change —  

in a perpetual peaceful revolution —

a revolution which goes on steadily,

quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions —

without the concentration camp or 

the quick-lime in the ditch. 

The world order which we seek is 

the cooperation of free countries,

working together in a friendly, civilized society.


This nation has placed its destiny in 

the hands and heads and hearts of 

its millions of free men and women; and

its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. 


Freedom means the supremacy of 

human rights everywhere. 


Our support goes to those who struggle 

to gain those rights and keep them. 


Our strength is our unity of purpose.

To that high concept 

there can be no end save victory.

Quote of the day.............

"Those who suppress freedom always do so 

in the name of law and order."

-- John V. Lindsay
(1921-2000) U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City

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"It is not the business of the law

 to make anyone good or reverent or 

moral or clean or upright."

-- Murray N. Rothbard
(1926-1995) Dean of the Austrian School of Economics

In Grace...........

Even in order to make a claim and

To enjoy the fruits of ones doing

Either right or wrong......

One has to take the responsibility 

For one’s actions.........

Without which one is reduced to live 

A life that is parasitic........

No matter what identity or 

Worldly position one bears.........

And as such a life that in its wants and 

Unfulfilled desires brings 

Only misery as karmic bondage

And a life devoid of....... 

True moral and ethical standing

That define the best of human nature and

Some significance to...... 

The natural order of reality

Is a life outside of divine grace.

Quote of the day......

The theologian who is satisfied with his complete 

and conclusive thought is mediocre.

A good theologian and a philosopher is open ,or 

incomplete in thought,

always open to the maius ( moreness) of God 

and of the truth,always in development.

-Pope Francis.

In reflection of Purva Mimansa.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of 

Our intelligence by means of language.

----Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Source-  Nathan Greenslit. Harvard university.

Quote of the Day........

All ideas having even the slightest 

redeeming social importance --

unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, 

even ideas hateful to the

prevailing climate of opinion, 

have the full protection of the

guarantees [of the First Amendment].

-- Justice William J. Brennan
(1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: Roth v. United States, 1957

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"Since when do you have to 

agree with people

to defend them from injustice?"

-- Lillian Hellman(1905-1984).

 American playwright and memoirist.

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You seem ... to consider the judges as 

the ultimate arbiters of 

all constitutional questions; 

a very dangerous doctrine indeed, 

and one which would place us under 

the despotism of an oligarchy... 

The Constitution has erected 

no such single tribunal.

-- Thomas Jefferson.
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, 
drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Making of Mischief...........

All mischief is momentary

If we do not lend ourselves to it

It will pass, losing its momentum.

Quote of the Day...........

    

A people who extend civil liberties 

only to preferred groups 

start down the path 

either to dictatorship of 

the right or the left.

Beauty ? Art ....

What is mostly desired after 

has to be corrupted ( by the market forces )

To be mundanely accessible.

Quote of the day......

Concepts of justice

must have hands and feet or

they remain sterile abstractions.

The hands and feet we need

are efficient means and methods 

to carry out justice in every case

in the shortest possible time

and at the lowest possible cost.

-- Justice Warren E. Burger(1907-1995).

 Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1969-86)

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By freethinking I mean the use of 

the understanding in endeavoring to 

find out the meaning of 

any proposition whatsoever, 

in considering the nature of the evidence 

for or against, and in judging of it 

according to the seeming force or 

weakness of the evidence.

-- Anthony Collins(1676-1729).
Source: A Discourse of Freethinking, 1713.