The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.
— Turkish proverb
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodby so hard" - Winnie the Pooh
— Turkish proverb
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodby so hard" - Winnie the Pooh
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