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Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies.
Daniel Abraham
April 19, 2026
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
Doris Lessing
April 18, 2026
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
April 17, 2026
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
April 16, 2026
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H. P. Lovecraft
April 15, 2026
The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
April 14, 2026
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
Angelius Silesius
April 13, 2026
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
April 12, 2026
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
April 11, 2026
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert Heinlein
April 10, 2026
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