Steve Kalinowski

“They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.”
― Mulla Sadra, Breaking the Idols of Ignorance: Admonition of the Soi Disant Sufi

“Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”
― Timothy Snyder

“It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.”
― Gary T. Smith, Caribbean Gauntlet