The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
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 could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
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.