Curious Humanist

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Big Brother facial recognition needs ethical regulations

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“When a war breaks out, people say: ‘It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.’ But though the war may well be 'too stupid,’ that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”

“It is difficult for one person to understand another, because the earnest person always lays the stress on himself.”

“If anything is a gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be such a gift.”

“The power of man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“Whether God is dead or not hardly matters, for we would use him no differently anyway.”

“The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.”

“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

“I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying … I guess we can’t escape being a product of the times, can we?”