Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks to emperors. Today we kneel only to truth.
— Kahlil Gibran
This seems empirically false.
It almost certainly is, but does that matter? It is a slogan for any time when the powers that be are diminished by the truth.
Today we kneel only to hypocrisy.
Yes, it matters if we are deluding ourselves into thinking ourselves better than we are. False self-gratification prevents us from actually improving.
— Kahlil Gibran
This seems empirically false.
It almost certainly is, but does that matter? It is a slogan for any time when the powers that be are diminished by the truth.
Today we kneel only to hypocrisy.
Yes, it matters if we are deluding ourselves into thinking ourselves better than we are. False self-gratification prevents us from actually improving.