“Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.” WayBelieveMayPersonsDoeHandsEvilBeliefProcessUnderstandingWealthEconomyCreationCostIntellectualResourcesFortuneAlternativesExploitationProphecyDoomGood FortuneHand In Hand Author:Julian Simon
“Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.” IfsBeliefHistoryPowerLearningTheoryEconomicsThirdsDetermineAlternativesNothing NewSaying Nothing Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.” IfsWayFeelsHas BeensTwoFeelingsHandsMightHappensMovingBeliefResultsHealingBehindsEnemyRocksObjectsWeaponsAngerIntentionInjusticeShoesPeacefulReleaseAlternativesFixedTwo ThingsToxic Author:Deepak Chopra
“Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own.” ThinkingWorldMeanDoeActionIndividualBeliefGoalSeriesPatternsRedemptionAlternativesDominantCompelledProjectionCritiqueIntrospectiveGraspingBelief And Action Author:John Carroll
“Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingIdeasWantedUsedCoursesBeliefReligiousBehindsTeachTeacherAtheismTeachingDesignTaughtTheoryEvolutionProtectWeaknessProgramArgumentIntelligentDeterminePositive AtheismAlternativesContradictionReligious BeliefInvokeIntelligent Design Author:Steven Weinberg
“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.” LoveShouldSelfGodWisdomHandsChristianLawFaithBeliefLeftNaturalReligiousChanceLordPowerFateUnderstoodAnd LoveUniversalAbsolutesInfiniteBlindAffairChristian InspirationalDoctrineAlternativesRejectionHolinessRejectsTrust In GodConsideringSovereigntyTheologianComfortingCommitment To GodNatural LawReassuringMighty GodGod Is In ControlIrrevocableShort SightedSovereignty Of GodInfinite Power Book:The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition] Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]
“I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.” IfsThinkingNeedsPastDiesBeliefLateMedicineAlternativesToo LateGet AwaySuspectsHospitalsGymLots Of MoneyIrish Proverbs Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.” PeopleSeemsChoicesBeliefGivenPayAlternativesEnlightenedHomageUnbelief Author:Eugen Drewermann