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Were the foraging peoples who preceded the agricultural revolution and the creation of cities “savages”? Or were they “noble savages”? The editors of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter Gatherers are Rousseauvians to a man, who feel that ...more
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G.K. Chesterton
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
G.K. Chesterton

Sun Tzu
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Martin Luther
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
Martin Luther

G.K. Chesterton
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
G.K. Chesterton

Ursula K. Le Guin
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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