The human mind is like a kid who got a magic kit for Christmas: it only knows like four tricks. What looks like an infinite list of biases and heuristics is in fact just the same few sleights of hand done over and over again. Uncovering those tricks has been psychology’s greatest achievement. . .
Adam Mastroianni, Experimental History blog
Truth is a hard master,
and costly to serve,
but it simplifies all problems.
Edith Pargeter, Brother Cadfael's Penance
The world is disgracefully managed,
one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Ronald Firbank, Vainglory
I remember what’s important, and I make up the rest.
That’s what storytelling is all about.
Nikki Giovanni, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
Why do you want a theory at all, and why do you postulate any belief?
This constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear –
fear of everyday life, fear of sorrow,
fear of death and of the utter meaninglessness of life.
Seeing all this you invent a theory
and the more cunning and erudite the theory the more weight it has.
And after two thousand or ten thousand years of propaganda,
that theory invariably and foolishly becomes ‘the truth’.
Krishnamurti, The Second Krishnamurti Reader
Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.
Ogden Nash