An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.