#rut

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. ↗

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. ↗

#brutalized #criminals #destroyed #killed #land

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

All great truths begin as blasphemies. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#great #truths

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#day #each #exquisite #fills #fresh

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#blocked #home #hours #into #matter

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#else #field #moment #program #prophecy

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually. ↗