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“The real enemy of the human race is not the fearless and irresponsible thinker, be he right or wrong,” writes educator Abraham Flexner. “The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.”
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
I am convinced that people are much better off when their whole city is flourishing than when certain citizens prosper but the community has gone off course. When a man is doing well for himself but his country is falling to pieces, he goes to pieces along with it, but a struggling individual has much better hopes if his country is thriving.
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... See morePeter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
“Character,” Joan Didion would write in one of her best essays, “the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
The consequences to you, not someone’s conception of rights, must always be the deciding standard of your actions.
Harry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: A Novel
The federal government has become the domain of hedgehogs, urgently needed people but profoundly insufficient. It is wisdom that is lacking, and there is no civil service code for the wise.