Alexander

“Dare to think!”
― Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”
― David Hume

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke