✠ Favorite quotes

[Scarface F]

no idea if already posted but not going to check all 60 pages

[Creoda]

Perhaps in the 18th century, but in the 21st century half of Western people are oikophobes.

[Anglo-Celtic]

There is one reality, but there are billions of versions. I think that's from me.

[Creoda]

There is one reality, but there are billions of versions. I think that's from me.

'And we have just one world, but we live in different ones' - Mark Knopfler, Brothers in Arms, 1985

[Cynewise]

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

[Tooting Carmen]

Perhaps in the 18th century, but in the 21st century half of Western people are oikophobes.

United States =/= whole Western world.

[Tooting Carmen]

"Many people think that, without God, people will worship Mammon instead. Well that is a false choice - you do not have to worship either and, in fact, both have been very destructive forces throughout human history". Me.

[Creoda]

United States =/= whole Western world.

Was just an example, but the same thing generally holds across the Western world.

[Aldaris]

"Many people think that, without God, people will worship Mammon instead. Well that is a false choice - you do not have to worship either and, in fact, both have been very destructive forces throughout human history". Me.

Indeed, the idea that humans must choose between worshiping God or Mammon oversimplifies the complexity of human values. Why specifically think of God or Mammon, right? Anyway, you can plug in whatever objects of worship instead of those two, and you'll end up with the same false dichotomy.

[Xavier727]

GK Chesterton