Quote of the day 7th July 2015
“Be as decent as you can.
Don't believe without evidence.
Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them.
Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick.
Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection.
Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths.
And, finally, most important of all, endeavour to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
( Ambrose Bierce )
For the avoidance of doubt the above are Bierce's views rather than my own and there is among these seven maxims one which I disagree with, But they hang together as such a perfect summary of the old cynic's approach to life, and taken as a whole contain so much wisdom, that I preferred to quote the whole than take out the part I disagree with.
Don't believe without evidence.
Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them.
Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick.
Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection.
Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths.
And, finally, most important of all, endeavour to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
( Ambrose Bierce )
For the avoidance of doubt the above are Bierce's views rather than my own and there is among these seven maxims one which I disagree with, But they hang together as such a perfect summary of the old cynic's approach to life, and taken as a whole contain so much wisdom, that I preferred to quote the whole than take out the part I disagree with.
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