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It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper read more
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without read more
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer read more
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; read more
...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three read more
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of read more
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for read more
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.rn