#ron

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#irony #wonder #mankind

I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mac #mankind

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#justification #wrong #experience

As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #excellence

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#fairy #moron #fairies

Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#kane-chronicles #sadie #physics

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#change #electron #fundamental #ionization #layer

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#wishes

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#wrongdoing #guilt

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. ↗

— Leszek Kołakowski

#doubt #irony #modernity #philosophy #self-criticism