philosophers should not see their lives of reason as valuable because they are an example how others should behave. Instead, philosophers should see their value as psychologists might see theirs: as specialized at doing something that most people have little interest in or ability to do

— Kevin Currie-Knight, Humans, the Believing Animals

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)

— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once.

— Mikhail Bulgakov, a

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you’ve read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

— Gerald Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.

— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons