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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the read more
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next.
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society read more
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only read more
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of read more
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.
