Religion helps facilitate our insensitivity towards human suffering and live selfishly without guilt by blaming it on God.
Give a man some free time, or extra money & watch. If he uses it constructively give some more. If unproductively, tax it.
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
Man with character contemplates more, speaks less.
As you age it is not the wealth, nor power, but love and peace that sustain you.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Sorrow is essential to nature, joy is a slow by-Product.
Those of our ancestors who felt compelled to define deity in physical form, sun-worshippers must have been closest to science
When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.