"I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically."

-- Kedar Joshi

#God Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Cry the Gospel with your whole life.”
“Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.”
“Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.”
“My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”
“Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.”
“One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.”
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin
“The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.”

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