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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting read more
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is read more
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its read more
The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for read more
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for read more
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.rn
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly read more
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the read more
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.