“I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?” ThinkingWritingHumansMayLightYoungCoursesSinAnimalOpinionDarknessKnowingMidstParticlesAssertionHuman Animal Book:The Complete Works of John Keats Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.” MindAgeLyingDesireOpinionDoubtDangerousSucceedLaborOld AgeNarrativeEaseContemplationOppositionLengthConquestNoveltyAvenuesAttainmentAssertionRecollectionApprehensionWearinessInsolentExcursions Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.” RealHandsIndividualOpinionGroupsOughtImportanceSuspicionAssertionEndeavourStanceGuiseIslamophobia Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.” WaySometimesSoundVoiceOpinionConversationMisleadAssertionMislead Us Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.” BodyReadingOpinionCriticismAssumingCriticizeAssertion Author:Thomas B. Macaulay