Jess

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”
― Sam Harris