“The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: almost no one knows about it.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Progress is not utopia, but the gradual improvement of human flourishing through reason, science, and humanism.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.” — Socrates · attributed
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” — Socrates · attributed
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” — Socrates · Plato, Phaedo
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.” — Socrates · Plato, Apology