“The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.” ShouldMeanUseGoalSolutionsRewardsAbandonSubstitutesBribe Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.” IfsWellsPersonsLawGoalNaturalTroubleConflictUniversalAbandonScience And ReligionLaws Of NatureNatural LawUniversal Laws Author:Bill Nye
“As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.” IfsMenArtReasonAgeTurnsGrowsGoalCommonOpinionFameOppositesCastsReason WhySufficientAcquireAbandonSplendidPlungeBarbarismDegenerates Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” FormPoliticalPoliticsEnergyGoalCommunityPartyLibertyViolenceBehaviorMassDemocraticUnityCommittedTraditionalPursuePurityInternalsAbandonEthicalCollaborationElitesDeclineExpansionRestraintCultHumiliationObsessivePreoccupationUneasyCleansingVictimhood Book:The Anatomy of Fascism Source: The Anatomy of Fascism