"It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress."

-- Rebecca Goldstein

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“I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.”
“Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.”
“If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.”
“I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.”

Source : "The Broadview book of Canadian anecdotes". Book edited by Douglas Fethering, p. 131, 1988.
“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.200, Ultramarine Publishing
“I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.”
“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.”
“Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.”

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