Category: Thought

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.

Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (1953).

Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.

Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962).

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

Irving Kristol, “‘When virtue loses all her loveliness’ — some reflections on Capitalism and ‘the free society,’” National Affairs, No. 21, Fall 1970.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

Philip K. Dick, speech, “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” (1978).

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

In our ignorance, we could not see that the Kaiser’s Germany and the Communist International were merely two aspects of the Old World’s reaction against the new, the American principle of individual liberty and human rights.

Rose Wilder Lane, Give Me Liberty (1936).