About Doug1943

About No one of consequence. A reader, a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Trying to always ask, with respect to all my beliefs about matters of fact, the question, 'What evidence would make you change your mind?'
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Favourite philosophers When I was young, I enjoyed reading Bertrand Russell.
Favourite quotations You can get a lot further in life with a kind word, and a gun, than you can with a kind word alone.

Dulce bellum, inexpertis.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarised as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.

People do not love missionaries with bayonets.