Jakob Free

“For all their devoted attention, your atoms don't actually care about you - indeed, don't even know that you are there”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“No one can build thee the bridge, over which thou must cross the river of life, save thyself alone. There are paths and bridges and demi-gods without number, that will gladly carry thee over, but only at the price of thine own self: thy self wouldst thou have to give in pawn, and then lose it. There is in the world one road whereon none may go, except thou : ask not whither it lead, but go forward.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of “crap.”
― Neil Postman, Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
― Jonathan Swift