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.
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.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
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.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.