People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.