"As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations."

-- Michael Shermer

#Thinking Quotes #Rights Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
“Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.”
“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”
“Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.”
“She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much.”
“To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”
“Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”
“Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.”

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