Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

Benedict Spinoza

Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts. Everyone has as much right as he has might.
- Benedict Spinoza

Miller McCune

Handwriting is dying because it's a slow and inefficient way of getting our thoughts out -- a hindrance to thinking, given the alternatives.
- Miller McCune

H. L. Mencken

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken

Price Pritchett

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
- Price Pritchett