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Sunday, 7 September
Two thoughts from William B. Irvine
“It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren’t really sure what you want.”
“One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted.”
Monday, 8 September
Two thoughts from R.F. Kuang
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands."
“The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing to take the risk.”
Tuesday, 9 September
Two thoughts from Maxim Gorky
"When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid."
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Wednesday, 10 September
Two thoughts from Romain Rolland
"No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books."
"Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it."
Thursday, 11 September
Two thoughts from Brian Klaas
“You’ll be astounded to realize how much of your day-to-day schedule has been determined by people who are long dead.”
“Nobody introduces themselves as “a human” at a cocktail party.”
Friday, 12 September
Two thoughts from Pierre Bayle
"In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him."
"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
Saturday, 13 September
Two thoughts from Neil Postman
"We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything."
"An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook."
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