{"quotes":[{"text":"Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["choices","deeper-elevation","elevation","freedom-of-choice","history","journey","kabbalah","kabbalistic","reincarnation","sojourner","soul","spirit","spiritual-elevation","spiritual-growth","spirituality","spirituality-religion","zeitgeist"],"id":44543,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"To discern the Zeitgeist you need to read widely. You need to systematically scan all possible sources of information. You also need to gauge the moods and emotions triggered by the happenings at that point in time. But if you can get a good sense on Zeitgeist you can get immense control on shaping new ideas for others and you can even control others!","author":"Abhishek Ratna","tags":["success","success-self-improvement","zeitgeist"],"id":46818,"author_id":"Abhishek+Ratna"},{"text":"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["beliefs","fashions","ideals","worldviews","zeitgeist"],"id":85959,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.","author":"Ross Douthat","tags":["christianity","intellectualism","zeitgeist"],"id":122659,"author_id":"Ross+Douthat"},{"text":"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.","author":"Henry Ford","tags":["cars","progress","zeitgeist"],"id":126136,"author_id":"Henry+Ford"},{"text":"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.","author":"R. Buckminster Fuller","tags":["activism","adaption","change","development","digital-revolution","future","movement","new-models","p2p","progress","progression","protest","revolution","science","society","structural-changes","technology","world","zeitgeist","zeitgeist-movement"],"id":160923,"author_id":"R.+Buckminster+Fuller"},{"text":"Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the 'hands of God'; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["atheism","common","morality","nihilism","people","simplicity","stupidity","zeitgeist"],"id":179399,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...Only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that...Such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods.","author":"Ralph Linton","tags":["adaption","capitalism","communism","culture","development","fascism","future","ideology","modern","p2p","patterns","peer-to-peer","peer-to-peer-production","peereconomy","progress","science","social-change","society","socioeconomic-change","socioeconomics","structural-change","technological-progress","technology","time","tzm","zeitgeist","zeitgeist-movement"],"id":199404,"author_id":"Ralph+Linton"},{"text":"Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history of the world, we’re actually getting dumber it seems. The amount of (mis)information at everyone's fingertips has lured us into a false sense of knowing. Whether it be information about science, politics, or theology, our society is suffering from an inability to research, process, filter, and apply. At the same time we seem entirely oblivious to the zeitgeist (spirit of the age) that is nihilistic and libertine, making everything relative and subjective. And Satan himself rushes to blur our vision, stirring up the dust of confusion. The church must respond by teaching the critical faculties of logic and spiritual discernment, embedded in a cohesive framework of fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding). We must obtain a reasonable faith that is consistent with historic Christianity and relevant for our post-modern age. Otherwise, those rejecting the blatant errors of religious fundamentalism will be susceptible to every wind of false doctrine and repackaged heresy imaginable. They will leave the orthodox faith and accept something that vaguely resembles Christianity, but in reality is a vile concoction of demonic lies.","author":"David D. Flowers","tags":["church-and-culture","faith-and-reason","faith-and-science","fundamentalism","heresy","internet","misinformation","politics","spirit-of-the-age","theology","zeitgeist"],"id":221305,"author_id":"David+D.+Flowers"},{"text":"On the right, a brigade of trolls. On the left, squabling civil servants. Invasion of zombies. Have I managed to summarize the zeitgeist now?","author":"Martijn Benders","tags":["trolls","zeitgeist","zombies"],"id":281578,"author_id":"Martijn+Benders"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}