Wikipedia
- Individual action is a means and not our end. Individual pleasure is not our end; we are putting our shoulders to the wheel for an end that none of us can catch more than a glimpse at—that which the generations are working out.
—Charles Sanders Peirce
- There is no definite right or wrong human principle. To be able to adapt to the changing times is true wisdom.
—Lie Zi
- Democracy… is a system where anything, or almost anything can happen. The worst, but also the best. In it one may encounter all types: the sophist and also the philosopher. That is the unique advantage of this way of life.
—Alexandre Koyré
Wikipedia policies
- Laws must be established, but they must not have authority insofar as they deviate from what is best, though they should certainly have authority everywhere else.
—Aristotle on ignoring all rules
- A sword that repelled a huge army in days past is no longer useful. Similarly, some of the dictums of the people of old may no longer be applicable in today's world.
—Lie Zi on the nonimmutability of consensus
- The sage is neither elated by prosperity nor depressed by adversity. His endeavor always is to rely on himself and to seek his whole satisfaction within.
—Seneca on dispassionate editing
- Mind began to resolve first from a small beginning; but the revolution now extends over a larger space and will extend over a larger still… And this revolution caused the separating off, and the rare is separated off from the dense, the warm from the cold, the light from the dark, and the dry from the moist.
—Anaxagoras on Wikipedia's limits and quality
- Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing in compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.
—Jonathan Rauch on the misuse of civility as a weapon.
- "What is right in one group is wrong in another," he says. But what exactly is a group? and which group is one to select? Every person is a member of many different groups—his nation, his state, his city, his club, his school, church, fraternity, or athletic association. Suppose that most of the people in his club think that a certain kind of act is wrong and that most of the people in his nation think it is right; what then?
—John Hospers on local consensus
- It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
—William G. McAdoo on disruption via stonewalling
- I wonder how far Moses would have got if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel?
—Harry S. Truman on polling
Wikipedia community
- Not I but the world says it: All is one.
—Heraclitus on Wikipedians
- "He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me"—in those who harbor such thoughts hatred will never cease. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love—this is an eternal law.
—Buddha on kindness
- When you young it's hard to see / that it's wrong throwing rocks at the RTD
—O'Shea Jackson on newcomers
- Some in ten years, some in one hundred, we all die. Saints and sages die, the wicked and foolish die. In life they were Yao, Shun, Jie and Zhou, in death they were rotten bones. Rotten bones are all the same, who can tell them apart?
—Yang Zhu on expert withdrawal
- The gods help them that help themselves.
—Aesop on admin coaching
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