Jonathan Potthast

“In fact, had it been given to our eyes of the
flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be
able to judge a man much more surely according to what he
dreams, than according to what he thinks. There is will in
thought, there is none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly
spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the
ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing proceeds more directly
and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than
our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the
splendors of destiny. In these aspirations, much more than
in deliberate, rational coordinated ideas, is the real character
of a man to be found. Our chimeras are the things which
the most resemble us. Each one of us dreams of the unknown
and the impossible in accordance with his nature.”
― Victor Hugo

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
― Thomas Sowell

“No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.”
― Thomas Sowell, Controversial Essays

“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy