#gh

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#because #claims #clash #connections #empirical

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#might #more #much #than #think

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#accept #found #government #i #knighthood

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#bad #certainly #created #cricket #earth

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#boy #go #go away #good #i

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#because #dead #i #ought #over

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#companion #country #honour #i #okay

Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself. ↗

— Billie Piper

#long #matter #weight #you #yourself