Politics Quotes The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary By Nate on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 ― H.L. Mencken
Philosophy Quotes Ain’t no sense worrying about things you got no control over, ‘cause if you got no control over them, ain’t no sense worrying. And ain’t no sense worrying about things you got control over, ‘cause if you got control over them, ain’t no sense worrying By Nate on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 — baseball player and accidental philosopher Mickey Rivers
Philosophy Quotes Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. By Nate on Thursday, October 21, 2021 — Christopher Hitchens
Philosophy Quotes “Near the end of his life, I asked (Steve Jobs) about the meaning of all this. He said that he’d learned … that life is like a river. At first, you think that if you’re successful, you get to take many things out of the river, products people have made or ideas they’ve come up with. But he said, “Eventually in life, you realize that it’s not what you get to take out of the river, it’s what you get to put into the river.”” By Nate on Sunday, October 10, 2021 — Walter Isaacson
Knowledge Quotes Scientists can account for the organization of the physical universe. They can trace how the individual things and forces within it causally interact. They can shed light on how the universe as a whole has, in the course of its history, evolved from one state into another. But when it comes to the ultimate origin of reality, they have nothing to say. That is an enigma best left to metaphysics, or to theology, or to poetic wonderment, or to silence. By Nate on Thursday, September 23, 2021 — Jim Holt from book “Why does the world exist?”
Psychology Quotes The thing that’s very clear is that when people hear information that comports with whatever their tribe believes, or whatever their tribe supports, they’re willing to accept it without doing a lot of digging into the quality of the source, the quality of the information, the implications of the rest of the information that goes with it. Anything that challenges what their tribe believes they are going to be more dismissive of whether or not it comes from a quality source By Nate on Sunday, September 12, 2021 — Todd Simkin