Driving tenets: “Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
“Behold, the rivers are running backwards, as the proverb says!”
“It is not that I am out of my mind, it is that I do not have the same mind as yours.” – Diogenes of Sinope
“Am I expected to bow to a little town-fool for the sake of five bushels of rice?” – Tao Yuan Ming
陶渊明: “我岂能为五头米,折腰向乡里小儿!”
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“How can I stoop and bow before the men in power
And so deny myself a happy hour?” – Li Bai (From poem: “Mount Skyland Ascended in a Dream – A Song of Farewell”
李白 – “梦游天姥吟留别”: “安能摧眉折腰事权贵,使我不得开心颜!“
“Nothing harms me which affords me experience.” – Carl Maria von Weber
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” – Lin Yutang 林语堂
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don’t mind, and those that mind, don’t matter.” – Dr. Seuss
“It’s a campaign to liberate the minds of people.” – Jeremy Corbyn
Idea lasts.
No idea/opinion is absolute or universal.
If conventional wisdom is the rule, this is an exception.
If an authority blocked the site, that authority is frog in a well.
Monopoly of idea is fiction.
No idea is ever convincing to the free thinkers.
An opinion is an opinion; if you like it, use it; otherwise junk it.
We own up to our mind and idea; we owe nothing to other people’s mind and idea. Do you?
We agree to disagree.