Friedrich Nietzsche's quote of the day: There's a particular kind of person who is very good at being wrong. Not wrong in small, correctable ways—wrong in ways that calcify over years, becoming architectural, load-bearing. They've built their entire sense of self on a set of beliefs, and somewhere along the way, the beliefs stopped being tools for understanding the world and became walls keeping it out.
Nietzsche watched this happen everywhere. In universities. In churches. In the people he loved. And in 1881, somewhere in a notebook that wouldn't be widely read until after his death, he wrote the sentence that may be his most practically urgent: "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
