All Truth Passes Through Three Stages
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Topic: “Ridicule”
🔎 Lexicon containing “Ridicule”
Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
Ridicule
Mockery or scorn used to undermine ideas, beliefs, or authority.
💬 Quote Library — containing “Ridicule”
📖 Excerpts Library
It Just Seemed So Utterly Obvious That the Sun Revolved Round a Static Earth
Egocentric attitudes may have been a contributory factor behind the dominance of the geocentric world-view, but there were other reasons for preferring an Earth-centred universe to Aristarchus’ Sun-centred universe. One basic problem with the Sun-centred world-view was that it appeared...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
🎼 Song Excerpts
Is This Your Fake Hip-Hop Publication?
Is this your fake hip-hop publication? Look, I'm burnin' this
Source: Bulworth by Prodigy, KRS-One, Method Man, Kam
I Thought That I Heard You Laughing
I thought that I heard you laughing
Source: Losing My Religion by R.E.M.
I’m Playing My Jokes upon You
I'm playing my jokes upon you, while there's nothin' better to do
Source: Breakfast in America by Supertramp
🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Ridicule”
Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems…
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.