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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve. ↗

— William James

#philosophy #psychology #science #truth #science

It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge. ↗

— Livy

#political-philosophy #political-science #speeches #war #love

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.” Touched by an Alien ↗

— Gini Koch

#humor #science-fiction #touched-by-an-alien #science

The journey is the reward. ↗

— Erik Daniel Shein

#science-fiction #science

It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#smile

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch ↗

— J.A. Huss

#fledge #flight #i-am-just-junco #j-a-huss #science-fiction

Government succeeds by failing. ↗

— L.K. Samuels

#complexity-science #economics #politics #science

I’m going to grab a cheeseburger,” I told Patch. “Want anything?” “Nothing on the menu.” I smiled. “Why, Patch, are you flirting with me? ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#patch #smile

Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things." "Like..." I hesitated. "Blood-whore things?" "Like beating-her-up kinds of things" he replied flatly. "Oh God," I said "That's horrible. And she...she just let it happen?" "She did." The corner of his mouth turned into a sly, sad smile. "But I didn't" "Tell me, tell me you beat the crap out of him" His smile grew, "I did. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#mead #richelle #vampire #smile