To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Category Archives: 1059 – Quote Unquote
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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In a very deep sense, I think the biggest miracle that we need to create the super powerful A.I. is already behind us. It’s already in the rearview mirror. We just needed an algorithm that could learn and a network architecture that could somehow encode the knowledge and the capability to reason.
~ Sam Altman
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Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
~ Albert Camus
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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
~ Umberto Eco
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Communication leads to community — that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking.
~ Rollo May
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
~ Rollo May
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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
~ Hannah Arendt
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