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Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom
Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92
'I do not like spinach, and I am glad I don't - because if I liked it, I would eat it, and I can't stand it' - From Flaubert's Dictionary of received ideas
Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Niels Bohr
To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox
George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell, 1939
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan
Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone - Kurt Vonnegut jr
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope