#cal

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#intellectual #political #willful-ignorance #life

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#life

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#gives #glut #information #itself #less

It's just life, so keep dancing through. ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#fiyero #galinda #glinda #nessa #nessarose

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ↗

— Max Ehrmann

#philosophical #inspirational

I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#hobbes #life

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#philosophical #life

Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness. ↗

— Paolo Maurensig

#music #life

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#society #life

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain. ↗

— Tim Scott

#because #black #black community #called #community