Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake read more

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

I think and that is all that I am.

I think and that is all that I am.

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the read more

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works read more

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, read more

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.