You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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.
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.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.