Darby Long

“Did I ever think I might have been wrong? Yes, sometimes and briefly. But never because of the supposed majority against me.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations of the intellectual faculties: it is no less contrary to good taste; nor has it less influence to corrupt our sentiment of beauty. It belongs to good sense to check its influence in both cases.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste

“I fear that the animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason – as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, A Nietzsche Reader

“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time