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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Peter F. Hamilton
“The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Manhattan in Reverse
tags: intransigence, stubbornness
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“My tongue speaks but I do not act;
My heart desires but I do naught.
I am aware of the right path but do not let myself be guided;
I know, but act in ignorance.”
― ʻAlī ibn Manṣūr Ibn al-Qāriḥ, The Epistle of Forgiveness, or A Pardon to Enter the Garden
tags: disobedience, ignorance, intransigence
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Giannis Delimitsos
“When a philosopher happens to read some of his older texts, and most of the time he shakes his head in disapproval, he can be sure that he is on the right path. For this is an infallible sign that his thought has evolved and that he possesses the capacity to learn, to unlearn, to adapt. He is brave enough to acknowledge that he may have been naive, and this, at the same time, is a useful reminder that he might be wrong even with his current views. Thus, he protects himself against arrogance and intransigence.”
― Giannis Delimitsos
tags: adaptability, arrogance, bigotry, disapproval, evolvability, intransigence, naivety, open-mindedness, philosopher, unlearning
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Frances Wren
“Unfathomable: pouring money into the things destined to wilt.”
― Frances Wren, Earthflown
tags: intransigence
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Giannis Delimitsos
“The one who says, "I search only for the truth, and nothing but the truth" is a candidate for the tyrant's throne. The one who says, "I have found the truth" is already sitting on it.”
― Giannis Delimitsos
tags: bigotry, certainties, convictions, dogmatism, epistemology, fanaticism, intransigence, scepticism, truth, tyranny
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Catherine Nixey
“Christian preachers [...] were intransigent. They, they said, were answerable to a higher power than the mere law of the land. Their eye was upon heaven. As they reminded their flocks, it was not the law of some imperial bureaucrat that mattered. It was the law of God. Anything that saved a soul – even if it did so at the expense of law, order or even the body that that soul inhabited – was an acceptable act. To attack the houses, bodies and temples of those afflicted by the ‘pagan error’ was not to harm these sinners but to help them. This was not brutality. This was kindness, education, reformation.”
― Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
tags: bureaucracy, christianity, education, intransigence, law, monotheism, reformation
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David Brooks
“Somewhere even Neville Chamberlain is gaping in disbelief.
The storm clouds are gathering
[New York Times, 8 February 2024]”
― David Brooks
tags: appeasement, denial, gridlock, intransigence, trumpism
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