Devon's Quote Collection
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Friday, August 5, 2022
“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
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Sunday, February 13, 2022
"Yet the most important thing we can do to improve our future is the most personal: to extend a sense of grace and tolerance toward the people who disagree with us or who are different from us in some way-even those who attack us. This sense of forgive ness starts with each of us."
Andrew Yang, Forward
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
"To never harbor self-doubt is poison poison for the soul,"
"and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us."
-Sadeq, from Charles Stross' Accelerando
-Sadeq, from Charles Stross' Accelerando
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story.”
-C.S. Lewis in On Three Ways of Writing for Children
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A great deal of the business of this world is run on the "let her buzz" theory, and the public pays for the waste. --Elisha Gray,...
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-Sid Meier
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-Dalinar in Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings