Mattered Quote by Matthew d'Ancona

“It makes a lot of sense, which makes me suspect it is a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth

“a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth

“It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of…

— Walter Isaacson

“When it came down to reality, what mattered except the lives of those you loved? All that was precious was made up of passions…

— Anne Perry

“They signified what had mattered to you, and what mattered still.”

— Jonathan Stone

“Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.”

— Scott Adams

“Rational truth—and all truth is rational—is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.”

— R. G. Collingwood

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the…

— George Orwell

“The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.”

— Tom Clancy