What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.