Best of Rationality Quotes
Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with truth. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.
From the Yes, Minister TV show.
The history of the world is the history of the triumph of the heartless over the mindless.
From the Yes, Minister TV show.
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
"Hypocrisy and dissimulation are what keeps social systems strong; it is intellectual honesty that destroys them."
Theodore Dalrymple- The New Vichy Syndrome p. 26.
Dueling Cryonics Relevant Quotes:
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
All that glitters is not gold
Unknown Origin
You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.
Warren Buffett