"Beware rhetorical questions. They tend to paper over whatever cracks are in the argument."
- Daniel Dennett
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice."
- James Frazer
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for laws."
- Gore Vidal
"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ah, Vidal, not only was he brilliant at creating wonderful hair products and iconic hairstyles, he was smart, too.
ReplyDeleteI shall bastardize Dostoevsky's excellent words of wisdom into advice of my own:
Nothing in this world gets a penis harder than the truth easily mixed with flattery.