2008 July 02 « Una Voce

Tyranny of the Old- From NYTimes

July 2, 2008 Varna Comments off

Will Wilkinson of the Cato Institute and Kerry Howley of Reason discuss how elderly voters can distort American politics, check it out here.

Categories: Debates, Issues, Muse

Hmmm….

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”

-- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”

-- Benjamin Lee Whorf

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

-- Carl G. Jung

"It all matters: everything you see, hear, watch, say, and think. Therefore, be the gate-keeper of your mind and choose carefully what goes in."

-- Maurice Lavigne

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

-- Rene Descartes

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

-- Francis Bacon

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

-- Bertrand Russell

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

-- Tyron Edwards