All civilization is basically enslavement. Empowering slavery.
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
Madness and genius is merely a matter of degrees.
Those in command of themselves seldom need approval of others. And those that constantly seek it are seldom confident and secure.
The corrupt are stupid: they simply raise the circulation of currency and increase the transaction cost.
Truthfulness is the highest morality.
Be happy your way, with your means. It’s foolish to be unhappy trying to be happy in the ways of other people.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
Science is steadily heading towards creating machine-men, having already put the man in machine and the machine in man.
Sorrow is essential to nature, joy is a slow by-Product.