An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
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.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.