“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.” WellsMaySoulAdventureWallShadowConcernConsistencySelf RelianceMisunderstoodRelianceInconsistencyGreat SoulsLittle Minds Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.” IfsMayIdeasReasonProblemSidesAbilityMoralCreativityProgressConflictConsequenceTestsPracticalsHandleConsistencyBettermentAdequacy Author:Rudolph Rummel
“The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.” WorldFirstsMayI CanFeelingsLastsRememberPrayingDegreesGloryStrangerThreadConsistencyI PrayHomo SapiensDesolation Book:The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge