23-04-2023, 09:22 AM
Barry Humphries: ÔÇ£ItÔÇÖs so much easier to shock people these days,ÔÇØ he told the Guardian in 2018. ÔÇ£I find it extremely provocative and therefore inspiring to find myself in a society that is so prudish when it thinks itÔÇÖs being liberal. ItÔÇÖs ridiculous.ÔÇØ
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche