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The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is read more
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.
Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and read more
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of read more
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
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.
