Quotes

I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there’s a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos

-Richard Dawkins

Art takes the trauma and allows you to compartmentalize or even transmute that pain into something else

– Neko Case

Its not a war crime, the first time…

– Nation of Canada, who inspired many Geneva convention laws

Academia values the appearance of truth over actual truth

– Aaron Brown

[The written word] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls.

-Socrates

Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it is probably shit.

-Somee

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Meaningful work & relationships thru radical truthfulness & transparency.

-Ray Dalio

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

-Richard Feynman

The price of clarity is the risk of insult

-Unknown

I wouldn’t trust a word that came out of his mouth even if his tongue was notarized.

-Private author about Martin Sigillito

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

-Upton Sinclair

The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates your poetry

-Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar