Quote of Edgar Morin: The first and fundamental resistance is...

Biography - Edgar Morin:

Edgar Morin born Edgar Nahoum is a French philosopher and sociologist .
Born: 1921
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.

Edgar Morin

Translation

(French)

La première et fondamentale résistance est celle de l'esprit. Elle nécessite de résister à l'intimidation de tout mensonge asséné comme vérité, à la contagion de toute ivresse collective.

Edgar Morin

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Gustave Le Bon - The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.

Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America

The greatest disorder of the mind is to believe certain things because we want them to be such and not because we have seen what they are.

Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - Treatise on the Knowledge of God and of Oneself

Quotes about mind:

Hide your life and spread your spirit.

Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres /

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis /

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville /

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes - Discourse on the Method /

My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.

Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers /

All about mind...

Quotes about lie:

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill - On Liberty /

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Claude Debussy /

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Pierre Corneille - The Liar /

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven

All about lie...

Edgar Morin also said...

Behind the money lies a whole world of passions; it lies in human psychology.

Edgar Morin - Introduction à la pensée complexe /

As soon as an individual takes an action, whatever that action may be, it begins to escape from his intentions.

Edgar Morin /

We have to live and deal with disorder.

Edgar Morin - Introduction à la pensée complexe /

We see that a paradigm — that is, the roots of a principle of knowledge — can shed light on certain aspects of reality, while blinding us to others.

Edgar Morin - Paroles philosophiques /

Action is decision, a choice, but it is also a wager.

Edgar Morin /

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