A person’s stature ought to be measured not by how tall he has grown but by how often he has had to bow, and how low, in the process.
If the soothsayers of the yore were prophets because they prophesied correctly, then what are today’s astronomers and other scientists?
Television: The hermit’s window to the world.
All civilization is basically enslavement. Empowering slavery.
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?
Scarcely a day passes when something doesn’t pinch me with this realization: What a goddamn idiot I must have been to make this mistake so far, or to not have known this, or that, until now. My, my, we don’t ever cease to learn.
Tall mountains are relatively noiseless.
The corrupt are stupid: they simply raise the circulation of currency and increase the transaction cost.
It doesn’t take rocket science to find why sumo wrestlers are fat and racing drivers and riders slim. But it takes high science for the reverse to happen and yet to win.