It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield…

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

— Walter Bagehot

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

— Mason Cooley

“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Critical thinking is an unavoidable part of growing up. We do not become adults without it. But in the modern world, this stage often…

— Marcus J. Borg

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

— Bill Bryson

“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“She’d thought Troy stank: the corpse piles, the fires, the fish guts thoughtfully left out for the gods—gee fucking thanks, guys, just what we…

— Stephen King

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or saddled them…

— Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern…

— Sam Harris

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all…

— Eugene H. Peterson