Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
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.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.