Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
No. 43.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 3, Aphorism 16
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
John Herschel (1792–1871) English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer
A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831)
Immanuel Kant book Critique of Pure Reason
B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Variant: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Source: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)
“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)