Juho Kusti Paasikivi quotes

“The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.”
-- Juho Kusti Paasikivi

#Facts Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.”

“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”

“It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.”

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”

“Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

“Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.”

Source : Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

“No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.”

“The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy”

“The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.”

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.”