If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Category Archives: 2358 – Quote Unquote
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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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There is nothing in this World constant but inconstancy, yet Plato thought that if virtue would appear to the world in her own native dress, all men would be enamoured with her.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.
~ Iain Banks
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A document called “syllabus” persists, and is still distributed to prospective students at the start of each semester—but its function as a course plan has been minimized, if not entirely erased. First and foremost, it must satisfy a drove of bureaucratic needs, describing school policies, accreditation demands, regulatory matters, access to campus resources, health and safety guidelines, and more.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The over-bearing insolence of ignorant men, who had arisen to sudden wealth by successful gambling, made men of true gentility of mind and manners blush that gold should have power to raise the unworthy in the scale of society.
~ Charles MacKay
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I had never encountered anything like the world or the words of Chester Himes. But I knew I wanted more. The next book I devoured was “Blind Man With a Pistol,” a deeply twisted and morally ambiguous novel about the senseless nature of violence. A work that is both terrifying and philosophical, it was a watershed moment for this young wannabe writer that also just happens to have one of the most fearless endings in crime fiction history.
~ S.A. Cosby via The New York Times
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The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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