…in politics it is the irrational passions that must be appealed to and utilized.

— Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism

epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, logic, and the like were not so much communicated as drowned in an ocean of boredom

— Hannah Arendt and Jerome Kohn, Thinking Without a Banister

…concurrency and effects—are essential to achieve good performance on today’s hardware, making nondeterminism a necessary evil.

— Jamie Allen, Reactive Design Patterns

Children as young as three or four years old start establishing dominance hierarchies in kindergarten.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different

If we allow that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life [i.e. as a spontaneous activity involving consciousness of free will] is destroyed.

— Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, and Michael Ignatieff, The Hedgehog and the Fox