The Benevolence of Opportunity

She smiled her last smile at so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand, last line of We The Living

Simplicity

Seek simplicity, and avoid it.

Seneca

The Truth Hurts

The truth hurts us now, but makes us wiser in the end.

Brand Blanshard

Ignorance and History

Ignorant people ask questions the wise answered a thousand years ago.

Seneca

Inaction 2

Doing nothing is worse than the actual crime.

Pamela
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Inaction 1

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
--Dante

Atheistic Fallacy 1

The circularity of one atheistic argument lies in first postulating that there is no God, and then asking why anyone would want to believe in God.

But if belief in God is a response to a longing for security, then, since different people want different things, is atheism merely a response to the desire for autonomy?