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It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Terry Pratchett
November 23, 2020
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Marcel Proust
November 22, 2020
The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing.
Thomas Szasz
November 21, 2020
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
Robert Heinlein
November 20, 2020
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
Paul Valéry
November 19, 2020
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
November 18, 2020
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
November 17, 2020
Sense is never common.
Robert Heinlein
November 16, 2020
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
November 15, 2020
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead
November 14, 2020
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