"My point being, the amateur historian’s next stop after “Boy, people used to be so stupid” is “People: still stupid."
— Sarah Vowell in The Wordy Shipmates
December 15, 2011
June 15, 2011
"All things that live long are gradually so saturated with reason that their origin in unreason thereby becomes improbable. Does not almost every precise history of an origination impress our feelings as paradoxical and wantonly offensive? Does the good historian not, at bottom, constantly contradict?"
— I.i (“Supplemental Rationality”) in Daybreak by Friedrich Nietzsche
(Source: goodreads.com)
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