THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: In honor of being done with modern theory (for a bit), from Boswell's Life of Johnson:
BOSWELL: But, Sir, does not Rousseau talk such nonsense?
JOHNSON: True, Sir; but Rousseau knows he is talking nonsense, and laughs at the world for staring at him.
BOSWELL: How so, Sir?
JOHNSON: Why, Sir, a man who talks nonsense so well, must know he is talking nonsense.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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