Nujia Cui

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.”
― Philip Zimbardo