"If justice is based on certainty, but certainty is not truth, atrocities become possible. We're seeing the first of them now. More will come." - The King's Blood, by Daniel Abraham
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” ~ John Stuart Mill
"Ukraine is not losing, but the front is moving in the wrong direction" - (Marc Rutte, NATO Secretary General)
"In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue." - George Orwell
The human brain can't release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion 1000x as strong as the grief of 1 funeral. A prospective risk going from 10m deaths to 100m doesn't 10x the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more 0 on paper for our eyes to glaze over.-Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2008
“The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost, “A Servant to Servants” (in North of Boston, 1914).
"I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to." -Jimi Hendrix
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.” - Cheryl Strayed
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
- Will Cuppy
- Will Cuppy
“Thinking can get you into terrible downwards spirals of doubt” - Rod Quantock
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H. P. Lovecraft
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert.
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.16
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires." — Jack London
"Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." -James M. Barrie
“Nobody hustles harder than someone who had to traumatically learn that they can't rely on the people they trusted”. - @Dearme2_ on X