#linusquotes
— René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy(1644)
Original Latin: Veritatem inquirenti, semel in vita de omnibus, quantum fieri potest, esse dubitandum
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— Susan B. Anthony
Full(er) context:
“The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.”
–(A defense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman’s Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention)
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—Assata Shakur,from Assata: An Autobiography
Full(er) context: “The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
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— Mary Pickford, fromWhy Not Try God?,Chapter 6 (newspaper serial), appeared in St. Petersburg Times, Jan. 25, 1936, sect. 2, p3
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— Vladimír Nabokov, Speak, Memory: A Memoir, 1951(U.S. title: Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir)
“All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and the chimeras, something real ahead… The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).”
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