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It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Terry Pratchett
January 18, 2026
The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as equivalent to the assertion "I am not responsible": Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing.
Thomas Szasz
January 17, 2026
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Marcel Proust
January 16, 2026
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
Robert Heinlein
January 15, 2026
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
January 14, 2026
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
Paul Valéry
January 13, 2026
Sense is never common.
Robert Heinlein
January 12, 2026
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
January 11, 2026
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
January 10, 2026
Imagine us saying to children: "In the last fifty or so years, the human race has become aware of a great deal of information about its mechanisms; how it behaves, how it must behave under certain circumstances. If this is to be useful, you must learn to contemplate these rules calmly, dispassionately, disinterestedly, without emotion. It is information that will set people free from blind loyalties, obedience to slogans, rhetoric, leaders, group emotions."
Doris Lessing
January 9, 2026
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