Joy Handsome

“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“For some tense moments it seemed that we were going to be hanged or shot or at least locked up forever in their deepest dungeon for the crime of not being Californians.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value