and restore prelapsarian innocence. And it violently rejected the humanism and liberalism of the Enlightenment, which placed the autonomy and flourishing of individuals as the ultimate goal of political systems.
-Steven Pinker in The Better Angels of Our Nature
Sunday, January 29, 2017
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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
-Immanuel Kant, in Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
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-Dalinar in Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings
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--Susan Cain in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking