That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.