"Mediocre minds are outraged by small insults but passive, subdued, and silent in front of very large ones. " - From Bed of Procrustes. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition—given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right, at least not easily.

Love without sacrifice is like theft.

There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd