‘There are several things to be noted about this novel maxim, “religion is a private matter.” The first is that it is obviously untrue, except in the sense that it is too true to be useful, or so obvious as to be useless.’
—G K Chesterton.
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
—John Kerry.
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
—Niels Bohr.
“We talk, by a sort of habit, about Modern Thought, forgetting the familiar fact that moderns do not think. They only feel, and that is why they are so much stronger in fiction than in facts; why their novels are so much better than their newspapers.”
—G K Chesterton.
“We descended from chimpanzees. It’s the fact that we tend to react to what’s immediately in front of our face, like a cow or a dog or anything. We bark and that’s who we are. And we tend to always want things to be easier to take the path of least resistance. We all have that lower part of our nature and it’s a lot stronger, but at the same time, there’s a higher self that we’re straining to become. And maybe I’m being optimistic, but I’m saying that everybody has that desire to reach the higher self.”
—Robert Greene.
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– / … The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.”
—Emily Dickinson, poet (10 Dec 1830-1886).
“Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing.”
‒Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, 6 part series in Electrical Experimenter, Feb-Jun and Oct 1919.
