Curiosity

Human curiosity is an amazing accelerant.
--Adam Gopnick

Doesn't Care

The God I believe in is not beneficent. He doesn't care.
--Roger Rosenblatt

Hope

The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don't know yet whether they will have any effect.
--Rebecca Solnit

High Beauty

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: There was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.
--J.R.R. Tolkien

Not Like

I don't like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see.
--Donald Trump (said to a biographer, Michael D'Antonio)

Algorithms

Algorithms are not neutral. Algorithms are not self-generating. Algorithms come from humans and their results are results of human prejudice.
--Malka Older

Talk

When you talk to God it's called prayer, but when God talks to you it's called schizophrenia.
--Earl Bockenfeld

Superior

Peace is not a local thing. That's what makes it superior to war. War stays where war is. Peace belongs elsewhere, as well as at home. That's part of its muscle.
--Colum McCann

Whole

For the awakened individual, however, life begins now, at any and every moment; it begins at the moment when he realizes that he is part of a great whole, and in the realization becomes himself whole.
--Henry Miller

Border

The word "border" refers to the numerous separations or boundaries which reality presents: economic, religious, cultural, legal borders; but it's also true that the body itself is a border. Language is a border. Reality is a border. Imagination is a border.
--Alfonso García Cortéz

Singularity

Is it not the singularity of life that terrifies us? Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
--John Updike

Golden Rule

Risk pooling is the Golden Rule in action; "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Helping each other allows humans to survive and thrive. Cutthroat competition kills the vulnerable, without thought or remorse, in the degenerate fantasy world of the immature.
--Mark Question

Lying

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the "victim" ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
--Sue Grafton

Promise

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.
--Johann von Goethe

Jesus

Donald Trump is Jesus to American followers of Jesus who've totally rejected the teachings of Jesus.
--John Fugelsang

Wealth Addiction

Like alcoholics driving drunk, wealth addiction imperils everyone. Wealth addicts are, more than anybody, specifically responsible for the ever widening rift that is tearing apart our once great country.
--Sam Polk

Meaningful

The greatest obstacle to having a meaningful life is the sense one has too much life left.
--Alain de Botton

Surprise

Surprise. Surprise. Surprise.
--Gomer Pyle

Something

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for.
--David Foster Wallace

Joke

A joke really requires a hidden ground of grievance, for which the joke is only a figure sitting out front.
--Marshall McLuhan

Appeasement

Hazy visions of "healing" and "not becoming the hate we hate" sound dangerously like appeasement.
--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Friendship

Friendship is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
--Dag Hammarskjold