Philosophy Quote by H.E. Davey — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Memorizing someone else’s explanation of the truth isn’t the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is—the memorization of second-hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material is learned by rote, and no matter how eloquently we can speak about the memorized information, we’re clinging to a description of something that’s not ours. What’s more, the description is never the item itself. By holding onto our impression of certain descriptions, we frequently are unable to see the real thing when it’s right before our eyes. We are conditioned by memorizing and believing concepts—the truth of which we’ve never genuinely seen for ourselves.”

“TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,”

“All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.”

“In a free economy, change tends to be evolutionary. In a government-controlled economy, change tends to be revolutionary.”

“Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…”

“The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”