You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned
You must unlearn what you have learned
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb...
Source: We Choose to Go to the Moon
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
The earth may now be a mere planet moving around the sun, but man is no longer confined to it. His spiritual energy, his reason, his brain power, his psyche, his consciousness have become the center and the purpose of...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
The years when Jesuits established their first schools coincided with the beginning of the so-called scientific revolution and the origin of modern science. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus had published his book, De revolutionibus orbium celestium, in which he proposed the...
Source: Jesuit Contribution to Science by Agustín Udías
It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation. Before Magellan's time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
We’ve got to act fast. Step one, we reverse the vacuum and blow the air back onto the planet.
Source: Spaceballs
The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words...
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
I can still feel the pain right now and Hulk Hogan that pain won’t stop until the twin towers come crumbling down
Source: Wrestlers Randy Savage & Hulk Hogan predict 9/11 Attack in 1989!
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.
Source: Rebuilding Americas Defenses
US superior military strength and intelligence hegemony can only be transformed into power and real global strength if there are conflicts – wars and terrorist attacks – that threaten the multipolar world order of the civilian economic-political system.
Both foundation network-building and the rise of America to globalism were also symbiotically connected to catalytic global events: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, for example; the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 and the...
Also sprach Zarathustra is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical 1883–1885 novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Strauss conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt. A typical performance lasts roughly...
Source: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Playboy: One critic even called 2001 “the first Nietzschean film,” contending that its essential theme is Nietzsche’s concept of man’s evolution from ape to human to superman. What was the metaphysical message of 2001? Kubrick: It’s not a message that...
Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority.
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
Thus, we may say that a new idea disturbs the existing stock of ideas and distorts the accepted frame of reference. In our endeavor to restore the former coherence and balance, to remedy the disturbing situation, we are compelled to...
Source: Nature and Human Nature by Lawrence K. Frank
A NEW way of looking at the universe and man's place in it was urged upon the scientific world by Lawrence K. Frank, of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science....
When I leave don't save my seat - I'll be back when it's all complete - The moment is medical, moment is medical
Source: Chlorine by Twenty One Pilots
This is our last dance - This is our last dance - This is ourselves , under pressure
Source: Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie
I couldn't tell you if it's gonna change the world, but I hope to hell it's gonna change me
Source: The Next Big Thing by Jesus Jones
If you open your mind for me, you won't rely on open eyes to see - The walls you built within, come tumbling down and a new world will begin
Source: Silent Lucidity by Queensrÿche
1-7-7-6 - The names upon the list of all the ones who gave until they died
Source: America by Imagine Dragons
Just as the four walls close me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight I'm the first to know... My dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time anything that's dead shall be re-grown and your vicious pain, your warning sign You will be fine...
Source: The Adventure by Angels & Airwaves
And I can't get it out of my head - No, I can't get it out of my head - Now my old world is gone for dead, 'cause I can't get it out of my head
Source: Can’t Get It Out of My Head by Electric Light Orchestra
My God, amazing how we got this far - It's like we're chasing all those stars
Source: Secrets by OneRepublic
I feel like a newborn - And I feel like a newborn
Source: Take a Picture by Filter
Over and in, last call for sin - While everyone's lost, the battle is won, with all these things that I've done
Source: All These Things That I’ve Done by The Killers
The child is grown, the dream is gone
Source: Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
Welcome to the new age, to the new age - Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Source: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age
Source: The Horizon Has Been Defeated by Jack Johnson
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones - Enough to make my system blow
Source: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
Teach the children quietly For some day sons and daughters Will rise up and fight while we stood still
Source: Silent Running by Mike + The Mechanics
Here comes summer, here comes rain - Here comes all those mysteries, make me born again
Source: Summer by Simple Minds
Just fifty more years we're all gonna know - Why, when, where, how, and who gets to go - So let's all have a good time before the great divide - 'Cause things will start separating come 2025
Source: Crack In the World by Sammy Hagar
Jesus and his lawyer are coming back
Source: Novocaine for the Soul by Eels
This is not the end, this is not the beginning - Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision
Source: Waiting For The End by Linkin Park
All the things that I used to say All the words that got in the way All the things that I used to know Have gone out the window
Source: When It’s Over by Sugar Ray
Hook me up a new revolution, 'cause this one is a lie
Source: Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters
And our lives are forever changed, we will never be the same - The more you change the less you feel
Source: Tonight, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins
Will you tell me what you saw, and I'll tell you what you missed, when the ocean met the sky - You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye - When the Earth folded in on itself
Source: Ocean Breathes Salty by Modest Mouse
Everybody, tell me have you heard? Pop goes the world
Source: Pop Goes the World by Men Without Hats
These secret garden beams, changed my life, so it seems
Source: Deep Inside Of You by Third Eye Blind
I saw the decade end, when it seemed the world could change at the blink of an eye
Source: Right Here Right Now by Jesus Jones
You could try and take us - But victory's contagious
Source: Glory and Gore by Lorde
That's great it starts with an earthquake
Source: Its the End of the World As We Know It by R.E.M.
The More You Change, the Less You Feel
And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same.