“it's stupid to do work that machines could do just as well.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

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“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds—to stand out in brilliant relief. Life thrummed at a higher pitch. The world was made real.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“A group of pagan ruffians and pirates had gained possession of an effective military and naval machine, but they faced a mass of formidable veterans whom they had to feed and manage, and for whom they must provide killings. Such men make plans,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“That it is no great matter, whether I remove his scruple or no: where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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