Notable Quotable 198

Joel Walbert

Feb 01, 2024

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

- H. G. Wells

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event.

Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

- Michael Denton

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade.

It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.

- Hunter S. Thompson

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.

- B. W. Powe

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

- Pearl S. Buck

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

- Aldous Huxley