What did Carl Sagan mean by: Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA Copy
+ Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what’s true from what feels good. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Feel Good, Powerful, Science, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Dream, Television, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Government, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ [Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Heart, Science, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Atheism, Happiness, Strong, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Consciousness, Creatures, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Awful, Optimistic, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
+ Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sagan, Equal, Stupid, 0 - Carl Sagan Astronomer · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
