Music, Poetry, Politics, Philosophy, History, Science

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar

Guns Germs and Steel, Physics of the Impossible, In Search of Lost Time, Why the West Rules—For Now, Physics of the Future, Patterns of Democracy, Musket Map and Money, The Measure of Civilization, Les Fleurs du mal, Romeo and Juliet, Ulysses, The Horse the Wheel and Language, Authority and the Individual, A History of Western Philosophy, The Fall of the Roman Empire: a New History, Empires and Barbarians, The Elusive Quest for Growth, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Art of War, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Physics of the Future, The Future of Humanity, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, Geopolitics Economy and State Survival

Homo sum. HUMANI NIHIL A ME ALIENUM PUTO.

I am human. I consider NOTHING HUMAN ALIEN TO ME (TERENCE)

When the NAZIS CAME FOR THE COMMUNISTS, I remained silent; I WAS NOT A COMMUNIST. When THEY LOCKED UP THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, I remained silent; I WAS NOT A SOCIAL DEMOCRAT. When THEY CAME UP FOR THE TRADE UNIONISTS, I did not speak out;
I WAS NOT A TRADE UNIONIST. When THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS, I remained silent;
I WASN'T A JEW. When THEY CAME FOR ME,
THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT to speak out. (Martin Niemöller)

I DISAPPROVE of WHAT YOU SAY, but I WILL DEFEND TO the DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT. (Evelyn BEATRICE HALL)

PREDICTION is VERY DIFFICULT, especially ABOUT THE FUTURE. (Niels BOHR)

If WE WANT THINGS to STAY AS THEY ARE, THINGS will HAVE TO CHANGE. (Giuseppe TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA)

It has been said that DEMOCRACY IS THE WORST FORM OF GOVERNMENT EXCEPT ALL THOSE OTHER FORMS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED FROM TIME TO TIME. (Winston CHURCHILL)

Seems so ABSURD TO ME THAT THE LAWS, that are the expression of the public will, THAT HATE AND PUNISH THE MURDER, MAKE ONE THEMSELVES, and, TO DISSUADE CITIZENS FROM MURDER, order a public murder. (CESARE BECCARIA)

If Hitler INVADED HELL, I would make at least a FAVOURABLE REFERENCE TO THE DEVIL in the House of Commons. (Winston CHURCHILL)

Though the Absolute Truth is One, VARIOUS SAGES AND SCRIPTURES HAVE DESCRIBED HIM IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. For this reason, AN ASPIRING SPIRITUAL PRACTITIONER WOULD DO WELL TO LEARN THE PERSPECTIVES OF NUMEROUS SPIRITUAL MASTERS, RATHER THAN JUST hearing from ONE. (UDDHAVA GITA)

एकं सद्विप्रा बहुधा वदन्ति

ékam sat vipra bahudā vadanti

Truth is One, THOUGH THE SAGES KNOW IT VARIOUSLY (RIG VEDA)

ये यथा मां प्रपद्यन्ते तांस्तथैव भजाम्यहम्।
मम वर्त्मानुवर्तन्ते मनुष्याः पार्थ सर्वशः

ye yathā māṃ prapadyante tāṃs tathāiva bhajāmyaham mama vartmānuvartante manuṣyāḥ

As people approach me, so I receive them. ALL PATHS lead to me. (BHAGAVAD GITA)