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opinion

arguing

comment (social media)

disagreement

agreeing

getting along

keeping silent

expertise

arguing online

shutting up

resilience

fan fiction

changing one's mind

information

is fixed by fate upon all things. If ever a man were to succeed in saying something completely true, he could never be aware of it.

And as for certain truth, no man has seen it, nor will there ever be a man who knows about the gods and about all the things I mention. For if he succeeds to the full in saying what is completely true, he himself is nevertheless unaware of it... and Opinion (seeming) is fixed by fate upon all things.' (From Kathleen Freeman's Ancilla to the Presocratic Philosophers, Xenophanes fragment 34.)

is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other... and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other... and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. Arthur Schopenhauer

is so subtle an atmosphere that it will make itself felt without words.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words. Harriet Beecher Stowe

is something one is stuck with which a writer tries to see beyond, to the fact that whatever is happening, something else is going on, too.

The problem with opinions is that one is stuck with them. And whenever writers are functioning as writers, they always see . . . more. 1 5 3 . . . . Whatever there is, there is always more. Whatever is happening, something else is going on, too. (Sontag 'the conscience of words' in 'at the same time' 153)

is something which in someone is as difficult to change as his tastes.

It is as difficult to change someone's opinions as it is to change his tastes. (Taleb)

is valueless even when sound. What matters is who holds them.

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them. Karl Kraus

is hard enough to remember, to say nothing of remembering the reasons for it.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Friedrich Nietzsche

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