Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you.
You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
A world is supported by four things....the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayer of righteous and the valour of the brave. But all this are nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Humans are almost always lonely.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
