Luis

“what has been worked away at in recent years has been a project in which verifiable truth is cast out. In its place comes that great Oprah-ism: “my truth.” The idea that I have “my truth” and you have yours makes the very idea of objective truth redundant. It says that a thing becomes so because I feel it to be so or say that it is so. At its most extreme, it is a reversion to a form of magical thinking. Precisely the thinking that the Enlightenment thinkers chased out. And perhaps that is why the Enlightenment thinkers have become such a focus for assault. Because the system they set up is antithetical to the system that is being constructed today: a system entirely opposed to the idea of rationalism and objective truth; a system dedicated to sweeping away everyone from the past as well as the present who does not bow down to the great god of the present: “me.”
― Douglas Murray, The War on the West: An Instant NYT Bestselling History of the Modern World

“Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“A ideia de "esquerda" e "direita" desgastou-se a tal ponto que hoje só serve para fins objurgatórios, isto é, para acusar de "politicamente incorretos", aqueles que, de algum modo, não são a favor da maneira de ver por nós tida como "correta".”
― Roberto Campos, LIBERALISMO: Roberto Campos em sua melhor forma (Coleção Economia Política)

“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success