Chris

“Of course, the brain is a machine and a computer - everything in classical neurology is correct. But our mental processes, which constitute out being and life, are not just abstract and mechanical, but personal, as well - and, as such, involve not just classifying and categorising, but continual judging and feeling also. If this is missing, we become computer-like, as Dr P. was. And, by the same token, if we delete feeling and judging, the personal, from the cognitive sciences, we reduce them to something as defective as Dr P. - and we reduce our apprehension of the concrete and real.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“A small army of slaves had gone ahead to prepare for Khal Drogo’s arrival. As each rider swung down from his saddle, he unbelted his arakh and handed it to a waiting slave, and any other weapons he carried as well. Even Khal Drogo himself was not exempt. Ser Jorah had explained that it was forbidden to carry a blade in Vaes Dothrak, or to shed a free man’s blood. Even warring khalasars put aside their feuds and shared meat and mead together when they were in sight of the Mother of Mountains. In this place, the crones of the dosh khaleen had decreed, all Dothraki were one blood, one khalasar, one herd.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“That awkward moment when you realize you’ve been making gay jokes in front of your gay kid for the last 17 years.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“The punishment we suffer, if we refuse to take an interest in matters of government, is to live under the
government of worse men.”
― Plato, The Republic