We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for read more

We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped read more

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.

...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.