Tsundoku

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde.

“There is no one way to anything.” Chinua Acebe

That which can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens

The relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one.  Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. James Baldwin