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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Thought for the Day

“All truth passes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed.  Second, it is violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

12 comments:

mooderino said...

I've had dates like that.

Antares Cryptos said...

True.;)

Laoch of Chicago said...

mood, hahahahahahahahahaha, nice one.

ac, yes, so it seems.

karensomethingorother said...

that immediately makes me think of the late Dr. Abram Hoffer who came upon the idea of giving people suffering from schizophrenia high doses of certain vitamins, rather than narcotics. He has various books detailing his successes, but this of course has all been met with HUGE opposition.

Laoch of Chicago said...

karen, I read an interesting book about Schizophrenia by the late Silvano Arieti called, "Interpretation of Schizophrenia," recently,(who used psychotherapy with such patients which few others chose to do at that time) if you are interested in the topic.

Elisabeth said...

Makes sense to me, Laoch. How hard it can be for us to accept new ideas.

Patience_Crabstick said...

Change is scary.

Laoch of Chicago said...

elisabeth, this is so true. Orthodoxy is very sticky.

pc, true, but it is important.

Donna B. said...

I'd hate to be in a relationship like that...

Rubye Jack said...

why is this so true?
Maybe it is a good thing?
Like a kind of testing of the waters?

Laoch of Chicago said...

donna, understood.

rj, I think it is true because of human nature. The old power class benefits from old truths being true. As such they fight any new paradigms.

dbs said...

Absolutely true. It reminds me of the CBAM model.