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A witty saying proves nothing.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 30 Apr 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 02 Jun 2019 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I still wish for an America that matches the marketing material.
Speaker: Dan CarlinPosted: 22 Apr 2019 at 7:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
Source: The Black SwanPosted: 16 Feb 2015 at 11:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
Speaker: Salman RushdiePosted: 14 Feb 2015 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
anger is just vulnerability’s mask.
Speaker: Warren FarrellPosted: 09 Jan 2015 at 2:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’d rather spend an hour with a reasonable Christian than spend… any time at all with a vegan atheist.
Speaker: Marc MaronPosted: 08 Jan 2015 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
Speaker: Niccolo MachiavelliPosted: 07 Jan 2015 at 9:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
Speaker: Alan FurstSource: Night Soldiers: A NovelPosted: 24 Dec 2014 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 24 Dec 2014 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
Speaker: Dorothy ParkerPosted: 24 Dec 2014 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
Speaker: John DeweyPosted: 24 Dec 2014 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.
...And such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, neglect and pass them by. But with far more subtlety does this mischief insinuate itself into philosophy and the sciences; in which the first conclusion colors and brings into conformity with itself all that come after, though far sounder and better. Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed toward both alike. Indeed, in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of the two.Speaker: Francis BaconSource: Novum OrganumPosted: 11 Dec 2014 at 1:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The ways we miss our lives are life.
Speaker: Randall JarrellSource: A Girl in a LibraryPosted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Failure is the condiment that gives success it’s flavor.
Speaker: Truman CapotePosted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In our hearts, we want to believe in – and would choose – great accomplishment and virtue. That’s why our lies, particularly to ourselves, are so beautiful.
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: The Way of KingsPosted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If democracy is to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
whenever there are some people calling for the elimination of the class that lives by collecting interest, there will be others to object that this will destroy the livelihood of widows and pensioners.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[The] great embarrassing fact that haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. More than anything else, the endless recitation of the myth of barter, employed much like an incantation, is the economists’ way of fending off any possibility of having to confront it.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!