Quote for Today: Georg Simmel
Our fellowman either may voluntarily reveal to us the truth about himself, or by dissimulation he may deceive us as to the truth. No other object of knowledge can …
Quote for Today: Jill Christman
Those books, pasted together by my grandmother, year after year, replaced the cognitive exercise of memory for me. Sitting on a section of wall-to-wall carpeting, drinking the bubbling red birch …
Quote for Today: Steven Pinker
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You …
Quote for Today: Muriel Barbery
In our world, that’s the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it’s been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, …
Quote for Today: Sammy Toora
You can repeat [the] lies of others without hesitation because you don’t have to give justification. But saying truth you have to be fearless and courageous because you have to …
Quote for Today: Lao Tzu
If the Great Way perishes there will be morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be …