Truth: awesome, painful element of our reason. Naturally, most of us cannot stand it.
Some may despise you because you fail them; others because they envy you.
Shame: The burden of the sensitive.
Man with character contemplates more, speaks less.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Science is steadily heading towards creating machine-men, having already put the man in machine and the machine in man.
Sophisticated “believers” politely undermine other people’s religious beliefs; fanatics do this curtly. Who is more honest?
You wouldn’t employ an illiterate as a peon but with the support of many other illiterates he can be your minister.
Democracy: Rule by a minority clique by manipulating the majority vote.
Degenerative democracy is a system in which stars of excellence of a society are subjugated to, and governed by its scrum. Isn’t it time to ask whether we are heading that way?