Qotd

Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

What's love got to do, got to do with itWhat's love but a sweet old fashioned notion

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.

Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Given the pace of technology, I propose we leave the math to the machines and go play outside.

We must remember that we have not inherited this planet from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

The most valuable commodity I know of ... is information.

Over the past 200 years, philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error — the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Be a tail to lions rather than a head to jackals.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.