A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
— Oscar Wilde
Aesthetics are meaningless unless they are accompanied by innovation.
— James Dyson
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.
— F.A. Hayek
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
— Andy Warhol
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security
— Benjamin Franklin
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, reason
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
— John Dewey
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
— Epicurus
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
— Henry Peter Brougham
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
— Susan Sontag
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
— Isaac Asimov
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
— John Maynard Keynes
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
— Albert Camus
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
— Robert J. Hanlon
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
— Alain Chartier
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
— David Ricardo
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
— Albert Einstein
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
— John Maynard Keynes
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’.
— Issac Asimov
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
— Milton Friedman
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
— Margaret Thatcher
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
— Adam Smith
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
The way it works is, you do the thing you’re scared shitless of, and you get the courage after you do it, not before you do it.
— Three Kings
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
— Rene Descartes
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure
— Karl Popper
