The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
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.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.