David Pulliam

“A little simplicification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.” —Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Erin Boyle, Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More

“An “idealist” was a man who lived for his idea—hence he could not be a businessman—and who was prepared to sacrifice for his idea everything and, especially, everybody.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“Few moderns may think of the linear development of human history in the same terms the old Christians used, but the modern world of ideas is unimaginable without the irreversible linearity of connection and direction they provided. Everyone on the planet recognizes the Christian scheme of marking and pointing time’s arrow, even when we noncommittally mark our dates BCE/ CE.”
― James J. O'Donnell, Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

“paradox is more than that: it should entail a conflict between two deeply held convictions.”
― Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect