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2909 E Thomas Jefferson An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Politics
Politics
15549 E Charles Sanders Peirce Effort supposes resistance.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
8230 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
10234 E Yuval Noah Harari You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Human nature
Human nature
4723 E Ambrose Bierce DESTINY: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Destiny
Destiny
2603 E Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy
Democracy
7307 E Tom Waits There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.
Devil
Devil
2570 E William Shakespeare The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Quotations
Quotations
5333 E Shirley Jackson No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Reality
Reality
8611 E Alfred Korzybski Ignorance is no excuse once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
7927 E Antonio Damasio More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.
Mind
Mind
2547 E Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Politics
Politics
6755 E Paul Bloom The emotions triggered by fiction are very real.
Emotions
Emotions
3222 E George Washington It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Apology
Apology
3615 E Bertrand Russell No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Gossip
Gossip
7322 E Tom Waits I learned how to dig a hole in the ground and bury myself so the fire would burn over me. Never had to use it since, but I'm ready.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
7974 E Herbert Spencer Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
Ethics
Ethics
13247 E Steven Pinker The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
Psychology
Psychology
2435 E George Jackson Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
Cowardice
Cowardice
8266 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous