Human Suffering

Essayist Thomas De Quincey, in Confessions of an English Opium Eater, said:

"A quarter of all human suffering is toothache."

Knows Little Of That

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.

- John Stuart Mill "On Liberty"

Lord Keynes of the Market

Man was not made for the market, but rather, the market was made for man.

Hypothetical Hysteria

"The goal of a liberal / classical education is to produce a person with a fully general capacity to entertain hypotheses without being a hysterical bitch."

– D. Antinora (mashing up some other quotes I found on Twitter)

Antinora's Third Maxim:

The attractiveness of a woman and the intensity with which she demands free contraceptives are inversely proportional.

ενέργεια

knowledge presupposes hierarchy

- d. antinora