We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. – Victor Daniels Category: Reality
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. – Edward Abbey Category: Reality
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. – John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Reality
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon Category: Reality
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Category: Knowledge
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. – Carl Sandburg, “Prairie,” Complete Poems, 1950 Category: Live Now