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.
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.
All civilization is basically enslavement. Empowering slavery.
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?
Some men love so as to seek approval of their goodness.
The Secret of Gurus: Fool people such that they feel honourable.
When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.
It’s human to fear isolation for your convictions. But remember that every so often a single Galileo or Darwin had truth on the whole planet.
Be happy your way, with your means. It’s foolish to be unhappy trying to be happy in the ways of other people.