Daily Torpor

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“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.”
—William James (1842–1910)