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| 301 | That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own. That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards. | |
| 302 | That proves you are unusual,... and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. | |
| 303 | That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits. | |
| 304 | That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house! | |
| 305 | The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival’s secrets than he knows of yours. Always deal from a position of power. | |
| 306 | The attack by those who want to die - this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. | |
| 307 | The best assassin is everyone's friend, not the quiet shade lurking in dark places. | |
| 308 | The boundaries of civilisation are not the impregnable walls civilised men take them for. As easily as smoke on the wind, they can dissolve. | |
| 309 | The COVID-19 pandemic is not deadly in spite of conventional care; it appears to be deadly because of it. | |
| 310 | The Founding Fathers believed faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. | |
| 311 | The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. | |
| 312 | The habit of truth is hard to learn, and a mixed blessing. It leaves no refuge when a new truth comes along that hurts. | |
| 313 | The heresy made a repulsive kind of sense. But then what else would he have expected? Where there was the work of God, would there not also be the work of the Devil, insinuating himself into the schemes of the Creator, trying to robe the miraculous in the mundane? | |
| 314 | The ideal reasoner,... would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. | |
| 315 | The mainstream media and the ruling class treat us like children. They preach the gospel of civility but mock us with disdain and condescension. | |
| 316 | The man I fear most is the one who preaches virtue and a better life while using people's good intentions to shade their eyes from the light of truth. | |
| 317 | The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. | |
| 318 | The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts. | |
| 319 | The notion that some people routinely get up at four o'clock in the morning is enough to give me shivers. I mean, that's usually maybe two hours after I've gone to bed! Maybe no hours at all, some night. | |
| 320 | The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims, with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y. | |
| 321 | The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality - it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see. | |
| 322 | The point is taken.... Yes - if the words of the song justify the behavior they wish to practice but have been taught not to, they will wish to believe those words. From there, it is only a very small step to persuade oneself that they are true.
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| 323 | The problem with Huck is that she's right just often enough to let her think it's a law of nature. | |
| 324 | The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. | |
| 325 | The role of listeners has never been fully appreciated. However, it is well known that most people don't listen. They use the time when someone else is speaking to think of what they're going to say next. | |
| 326 | The shape of the government they made reflects the distrust these groups had for each other. | |
| 327 | The teacher who does not learn from his students does not teach. The student who sneers at his teacher's true knowledge is like one who chooses unripe grapes and scorns the sweet fruit of the vine which has been allowed to ripen in it's own time. | |
| 328 | The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. | |
| 329 | The thought of death held no terror for Kisada. Novice warriors lost nerve in battle for fear of life and limb. They came ready to kill, but never considered that they might die. Overcautious, they often lost their lives, dying because they were not willing to risk themselves completely. | |
| 330 | The truth is, it's easier to see the justice in people you deem to be like you, and far easier to find the wrong in those who differ. | |
| 331 | The truth of a situation most often turns out to be that one with the simplest explanation. | |
| 332 | The tyrant fears the laugh more than the assassin’s bullet. | |
| 333 | The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment. | |
| 334 | The Wizard's Fourth Rule, he called it. He said that there was magic in forgiveness, in the Fourth Rule. Magic to heal. In the forgiveness you grant, and more so in the forgiveness you receive. | |
| 335 | The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. | |
| 336 | The young idiots of today often rely too heavily on TV for diversionary info and enjoyment instead of reading. But if we want to change our world, we're going to have to take a tip from the Cable Guy: Kill that baby sitter and then pick up a good book. | |
| 337 | There are more miracles than we realize, then, for they are all about us, and need not be great and mighty. Grace comes to all who are open to it; miracles hap in places far removed from fame. 'Tis only the few that catch the eye of mighty folk that do astound us all.
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| 338 | There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth. | |
| 339 | There is no greater value than life - and that's what you partially recognize by your confused notion of granting mercy. Their conscious, deliberate act of murder takes the irreplaceable value of life from another. A murderer, by his own choice to kill, forfeits the right to his own life. Mercy for such evil is nothing short of excusing it and thus allowing evil to prevail - it codifies the taking of innocent life by not making the murderer forfeit their own guilty life. | |
| 340 | There is no law that cannot be twisted against its original purpose... no law that the powerful cannot corrupt to misuse - but that corruption can be purged, the twists unwound. Without the law, everyone is a victim sooner or later. If we defend the law; it will protect the weak more often than not. | |
| 341 | There was an interesting thing about stories, he had realized. Tell people a truth in plain words, and they were more than likely to forget it amidst the thoughts and cares of their daily lives. But clothing that same truth in a story allowed people to uncover it for themselves, and having done so, they might keep it in their hearts. | |
| 342 | There was something here, he thought, that nearly belonged to the gods. Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflects the landscape. And yet... and yet.
Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreampt up took them further in. He was fascinated. | |
| 343 | There will be people like this in any culture, for every society is made of individuals. You must learn this. Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. | |
| 344 | There would be trouble enough, but a man is born to trouble, and it is best to meet it when it comes and not lose sleep until it does. | |
| 345 | There’s a difference between thinking an action is wise and doing it. | |
| 346 | Therefore, parent of he that liveth in the God-blessed testosterone fog, train your son that he is not free to use, abuse, abandon, desert, ignore, overlook, disregard, forget, avoid, mistreat or neglect that which gets placed under his care; and if, if he does, he is to have his backside whupped. | |
| 347 | There's a saying that when guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns. | |
| 348 | There's more to being a woman than what happens with a man in bed, believe me. You should learn that. What you can give a man in bed he can get from any street woman, what he wants from a wife is that, but much more. He wants tenderness, understanding, the feeling of working together for something.
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| 349 | There's no job so simple it can't get messy if you don't pay attention to it. | |
| 350 | There's nothing quite so invigorating, so freeing, as piloting a gasoline-powered vehicle along an open road. Years from now, when all the vehicles are electric, when tens of millions of acres of Earth’s surface have been destroyed by open-pit mining for the enormous quantities of lithium and cobalt and nickel and copper required for EVs, when thousands of new landfills have been crammed full of batteries that can't be recycled and are leaking horrifying toxins into the water table, when thousands of square miles of windmills have made extinct hundreds of species of birds with disastrous environmental effects, I will still - always, always - remember this special and exhilarating night... | |