When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.
An unjust system judges people merely by the work they did; a just system should also consider what they could and didn’t.
It’s human to fear isolation for your convictions. But remember that every so often a single Galileo or Darwin had truth on the whole planet.
Those that do not marvel at watching a leaf, a bird, a child, or the PC probably are not intelligent enough.
Suffering at human scale is just another process in nature’s scale.
More people fail than they succeed. Yet few are trained to cope with failure in good grace, thus compounding the misery.
Confuse not success with peace & happiness. The most successful often hide their acute, deep pains successfully!
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
Religion helps facilitate our insensitivity towards human suffering and live selfishly without guilt by blaming it on God.
Standing upright in all adversities? Wouldn’t one drown in the river, for instance?