Life advises

[matrixmann]

Famous quotes - who really knows they've been authored by the people they get attributed to?
Who can really say it's that what they meant? That what they thought?
And - who can say if they weren't a bit naive and really that wise?
Who knows at all if they totally personally were that what they get regarded as these days - decades, centuries, even thousands of years after they have lived?

With what certainty do people use them for brightening up their lives?
Are they afraid of something?

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[mai-neh.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I really enjoy quoting from a poet, or classic literature, but I bet a lot of the supposed quotations floating around social media are fake.

I agree it is weird that a statement from some famous person is given great credit, rather than our crediting our personal experience, our personal rational thoughts, etc.

It reminds me of a class in college where the professor asked us, how do we know what we know? What are the authorities we trust for the knowledge we think we have? Knowledge is ... not easy to verify.

[matrixmann]

I kind of feel like there's a lot of potential for manipulation in this segment.
Let's say... People denying their depressed moments because someone else said it's a waste of time, people denying recognitions how bad the world is to humans 'cause someone else said not to focus on one's mind on that, people playing Biedermeier because someone else said the greatest teasure is family and big politics and other more demanding things in the world are no worth the time bothering to interfere as a small cog of the whole clockwork.
Strangely way less people take out quotes which support their worldview if it is a dark one.
Much more do that if they want to tell themselves and the world "everything is okay".
Coincidence? That's why I'm alleging that.