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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
October 26, 2025
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
Lord Dunsany
October 25, 2025
To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin
October 24, 2025
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
Simone Weil
October 23, 2025
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valéry
October 22, 2025
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valéry
October 21, 2025
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.
Robert Heinlein
October 20, 2025
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
October 19, 2025
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert Heinlein
October 18, 2025
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Marcel Duchamp
October 17, 2025
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