The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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.
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.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational mind is a faithful servant.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.