In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the read more

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

Example is the best precept.

Example is the best precept.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; read more

Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature.

Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.

Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.