Mind-Changing Ideas

There can be no doubt that if a philosophy of life is to fulfill its proper role, it must be a philosophy of living, a philosophy to live...

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live...

The culture to which we belong – whatever it happens to be – fills us with its peculiar inventory. We are shaped by its mandates and its...

Migration has split Europe in two – or I could say that it has split the West in two. One half is a world where European and non-European...

Human societies must now change course and steer away from critical tipping points in the Earth system that might lead to rapid and...

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato [Research] suggests that what we think of as free...

Are kings, generals, and ministers merely born into their kind? Chen Seng, asked rhetorically during the Chen Sheng Wu Guang uprising in...

It is interesting to ask why our time has lost the concept of life as an art. Modern man seems to believe that reading and writing are...

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will. William James, Journal (1870) Propaganda works best when those who are being...

In the third decade of the third millennium, we face deadly threats to our health, our democracy, and the livability of our planet....

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the...

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between...

The best antidote for pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science. Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain Nullius in verba (Latin for “on the word of...

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would...

The essence of all morality is this: to believe that every human being is of infinite importance, and therefore that no consideration of...

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek...

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Cicero By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which...

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Why we all need to...

While no stone should be left unturned in seeking to discover the nature of man’s origins, we can say with conviction that we know with...

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even...