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.
04/18/2024
The way you spend an average day indicates the way you’ll probably spend your life.
— Brennen Reece, Productivity for the Depressive Polymath
04/17/2024
The ultimate act of disempowerment is to take away the responsibility for the schedule from those who must live by it. –Jim McCarthy…
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
04/16/2024
The spiritualisation of sensuality is a great triumph over Christianity. A further triumph is our spiritualisation of enmity. This consists in our profound understanding of the value of having enemies: in short, our doing and deciding the opposite of what people previously thought and decided … Throughout the ages the church has wanted to destroy its enemies: we, the immoralists and anti-Christians, see it as to our advantage that the church exists … Even in the field of politics, enmity has become spiritualised. Almost every party sees that self-preservation is best served if the opposite number does not lose its powers. The same is true of Realpolitik. A new creation, such as the new Reich, needs enemies more than it does friends: only by being opposed does it feel necessary; only by being opposed does it become necessary. Our behaviour towards our ‘inner enemy’ is no different: here, too, we have spiritualised enmity; here, too, we have grasped its value.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
04/15/2024
…social critic’s standard formula for sowing panic: Here’s an anecdote, therefore it’s a trend, therefore it’s a crisis.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
04/14/2024
To be surprised at nothing, they say, is a sign of great intelligence; in my opinion, it might serve equally as a sign of great stupidity…
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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