No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Mathematics is primarily a tool for human thought.
~ William Thurston
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I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
~ Toni Morrison
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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
~ David Foster Wallace
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success will be sure.
~ Mark Twain
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
~ Timothy Snyder
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Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are expressed.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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