Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.
The future did not arrive. - John C. Wright
The future did not arrive.
- John C. Wright
I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person - John C. Wright
I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. - John C. Wright
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.
I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas. - John C. Wright
I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambiti… - John C. Wright
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambiti…
If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics. - John C. Wright
If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful … - John C. Wright
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful …
What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section o… - John C. Wright
What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section o…
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to … - John C. Wright
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to …
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