Brooke

“The business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits of sceptical thought, they will probably not restrict their scepticism to UFOs, aspirin commercials and 35,000-year-old channellees. Maybe they’ll start asking awkward questions about economic, or social, or political, or religious institutions. Perhaps they’ll challenge the opinions of those in power. Then where would we be?”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”
― Henry James, Daisy Miller

“boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform