Never memorize something that you can look up.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
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.