Quote of Noam Chomsky - As soon as questions of will...

Biography - Noam Chomsky:

American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, political activist and social critic.
Born: 1928
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United States

Quote

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Noam Chomsky

Translation

(French, German)

Dès que se pose le problème de la volonté, de la décision, des raisons ou du choix de l'action, la science humaine n'est d'aucun secours.”
Noam Chomsky

Sobald Fragen über den Willen oder Entscheidungen oder Verstand oder Handlungsalternativen zu klären sind, ist die menschliche Wissenschaft verloren.”
Noam Chomsky

Quotes about will:

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

The will of man is his happiness.”
Friedrich Schiller

The world is independent of my will.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Anatole France

Quotes about decision:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

decision

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.”
Simone de Beauvoir

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
Plato

decision

Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

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Noam Chomsky also said...

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control. ”
Noam Chomsky

Democracy

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
Noam Chomsky

freedom of expression

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
Noam Chomsky

opinion

Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves.”
Noam Chomsky

education

Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
Noam Chomsky

Democracy

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”
Noam Chomsky

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