Nicolas Maffiold

“Indeed, later research backed up their claims, showing that people who are brutally honest with themselves are not as happy day to day as people with unrealistic assumptions about their abilities. People who take credit for the times when things go their way but who put the blame on others when they stumble or fall are generally happier people.”
― David McRaney, You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself

“Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“Language isn’t weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it.” Teia”
― Brent Weeks, The Blood Mirror

“To justify democracy takes more work: we have to explain why some people should have the right to impose bad decisions on others. In particular, as I will show in later chapters, to justify democracy, we’ll need to explain why it’s legitimate to impose incompetently made decisions on innocent people.”
― Jason Brennan, Against Democracy