Adapting Quote by Blaise Pascal

In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted.

— Philipp Lahm

“Without such rules, there are no exchanges of ideas, only exchanges of set positions and insults. People who disagree rapidly move from talking over…

— Judith Martin

“We set rules in times when they make sense. Then the times change but the rules stay: they don't make sense anymore, but we…

— Joan Marques

“In the course of my intellectual life I experienced very acutely the problem of whether it isn't actually presumptuous to say that we can…

— Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict

“There's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them.…

— Isaac Marion

“Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind,…

— Seanan McGuire

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

— Marcus Aurelius

“they (rules) will always apply, even if you don't agree with them”

— Paolo Coelho

The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves

— Tim Ferriss

“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.”

— Carolyn Chun

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for…

— Tyler Burge

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

— Kate Zambreno