Anthony Daniels - Mind Quotes

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There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.

Anthony Daniels

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Anthony Daniels

Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that... everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.

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Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. Pessimists, moreover, have the better sense of humour, for they have a livelier apprehension of pretension and absurdity. In a meritocracy, furthermore, those who fail must either indulge in elaborate mental contortions to disguise reality from themselves or sink into a deep melancholy.

Anthony Daniels

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Anthony Daniels