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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. ↗
#wit #women #appreciation
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. ↗
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. ↗
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. ↗
#society #the-colossus-of-maroussi #wisdom-of-silence #medicine
...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal. ↗
Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark. ↗
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did. ↗
