07-05-2025, 12:02 PM
"In [the United States] such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions."--George Orwell
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche