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When I dream, I am ageless.
When I dream, I am ageless.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand read more
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
The well-adjusted make poor prophets.
The well-adjusted make poor prophets.
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate read more
To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.
The eyes are the mirror of the soul
The eyes are the mirror of the soul
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that read more
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all.