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Herman Melville
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

H.L. Mencken
“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
H.L. Mencken

Daniel C. Dennett
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
Daniel Dennett

Richard P. Feynman
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
Richard Feynman

Slavoj Žižek
“The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie—the truth lies outside, in what we do.”
Slavoj Žižek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

75714 Chicago Nerds Book Club — 231 members — last activity Sep 15, 2025 04:17PM
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