What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”