There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the read more

The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong read more

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We read more

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to read more

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.