We who live in this world must know the present world.We get no help here from Alexander Caesar and Muhammad if we wish to be wise. Whoever seeks this wisdom and wishes to partake in society must follow the papers, must read and understand the newspapers. - Kasper Stieler, The pleasure and utility of newspapers, late 17th century, in The History of News, Andrew Pettegree, page 263
You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of the vast assembly of nerve cells and the associated molecules. You are nothing but a pack of neurons.- Francis Crick quoted by Nancy Piercy, Finding Truth 107
In the 20th century secular utopian idealists presided over the extermination of a 100 million people killed for a higher good by the apostles of Darwin, Marx and Nietsche History has never produced a more efficient set of butchers. - Nancy Piercy, Finding Truth page 96
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. Schopenhauer quoted in Nancy Piercy, Finding Truth page 112
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times: 1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94. He called the Qur’an an “accursed book” and once held it up during a session of Parliament, declaring: “So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world.”
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