“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed. A little distorted. A little foolish.”

— Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

“Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It’s possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or experience that person’s feelings.”

— Martha Nussbaum

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

— George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

A thought for today, philosophers!

“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.”

— Simone Weil (1909 - 1943)