The trouble with books
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that the best ones are those that tell you what you know already. (George Orwell, 1984)
is that the best ones are those that tell you what you know already. (George Orwell, 1984)
is that it’s a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. (Harry Frankfurt)
is that nobody’s there to appreciate it. (Franklin P. Jones)
is that we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. (Slavoj Žižek)
is that when you talk to Him you’re religious but when He talks to you you’re psychotic. (House on House MD #2.19)
is that he was skeptical in intellectual matters, but believed implicitly in the maxims that he had imbibed at his mother’s knee in moral matters. (Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian)
is that they are born pregnant and can easily eat an entire planet’s supplies. (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek, episode “The Trouble with Tribbles”.)
is that it’s a term that should not even exist; no one ever needs to identify himself as a “non-astrologer” or a “non-alchemist.” (Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation)
is that if you think you understand it, you don’t understand it. (Richard Feynman)