Dick Van Gelder

“Il suffit que nous bouchions nos oreilles au son de la musique, dans un salon où l'on danse, pour que les danseurs nous paraissent aussitôt ridicules. Combien d'actions humaines résisteraient à une épreuve de ce genre?”
― Henri Bergson

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.”
― David P. Barash

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov