A person’s stature ought to be measured not by how tall he has grown but by how often he has had to bow, and how low, in the process.
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.
Human suffering doesn’t count for nature. Do we count the ants we trample upon?
Those who celebrate success vulgarly lack sense of history.
Human capacity to be unreasonable, irrational is incredible. And it beautifully co-exists with some reason.
Wake me not – For I have never slept.- Sleep how can I – Awoke I never was.
Most people package their weakness as virtues; given due chance they would fall for the first sin.
One who has yet to fail has yet to take a worthy challenge.
Truth: awesome, painful element of our reason. Naturally, most of us cannot stand it.
Some men love so as to seek approval of their goodness.