Brian Setzler

“This is what creationists say of evolution, that it’s “only” a theory, it hasn’t been proved, as though this in itself is grounds for dismissal. This misrepresents the point of formulating a theory, which is to make sense of some body of evidence.”
― Daniel Quinn, The Invisibility of Success

“I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“We all know what the business of government is: making and enforcing regulations. Governments approach all problems as problems of making and enforcing regulations. They reduce all problems to things about which regulations can be made and enforced. This upstart citizen was trying to propose an approach to the problem that had nothing to do with regulations, and so she was ignored—and”
― Daniel Quinn, The Invisibility of Success

“I’ve said that if there are still people here in 200 years, they won't be living the way we do, because if people go on living the way we do, there will BE no people here in 200 years. I stand by every word of this. That’s how people WON’T be living. But what about how they WILL be living? What I’ve said in the past is that I could no more say how people will be living in 200 years than Thomas Aquinas could have said how people would be living in the Renaissance 200 years later. I spoke the truth when I said that. I truly couldn’t at that time say how people will be living (if there are still people here in 200 years). I must now make only this change: Now I DO know how people will be living if there are still people here in 200 years. They will be living like the people in this book. Not all living one single way (for it remains true that there is no one right way for people to live), but they’ll all be living in ways that work. Because,”
― Daniel Quinn, The Invisibility of Success