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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no read more
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at read more
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
