If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. – Hans Eysenck
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. – Hans Eysenck
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. – Hans Eysenck
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders