Carol Smith

“The world's default mode is basic indifference. It'd like to care, but it's just got too much on at the moment.”
― David Mitchell

“The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.”
― Gerhard Casper

“Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller. It is a common error, I think, among the Radical idealists of my own party and period to suggest that financiers and business men are a danger to the empire because they are so sordid or so materialistic. The truth is that financiers and business men are a danger to the empire because they can be sentimental about any sentiment, and idealistic about any ideal, any ideal that they find lying about, just as a boy who has not known much of women is apt too easily to take a woman for the woman, so these practical men, unaccustomed to causes, are always inclined to think that if a thing is proved to be an ideal it is proved to be the ideal.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.”
― Gerhard Casper