Quote of the Day
If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.
01/19/2022
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
01/18/2022
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their ‘generosity’, the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. An unjust social order is the permanent fount of this ‘generosity’.
— Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
01/17/2022
On his deathbed in 1969, Dwight Eisenhower asked a friend about “my scientists” and said they were “one of the few groups that I encountered in Washington who seemed to be there to help the country and not help themselves.”
— Matthew Lyon and Katie Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late
01/16/2022
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller Fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite ‘em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
This every poet, in his kind
Is bit by him that comes from behind
— Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, A Rhapsody
01/15/2022
Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
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