You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
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.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.