“What moment in history would you prefer to live in?”
“F. Scott Fitzgerald said ‘the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time.’ I suggest these: The world is registering important progress, but it also faces mortal threats. The first belief should empower us to act on the second.”
The rest of the Hemingway quote: “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
