Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
Religion helps facilitate our insensitivity towards human suffering and live selfishly without guilt by blaming it on God.
Sorrow is essential to nature, joy is a slow by-Product.
A society where successes – in politics, business, religion – come with fundamental compromises is a decayed society. Its “successfuls” are the scum of the earth.
. Pursue perfection, not for success, but for satisfaction.
Those that do not marvel at watching a leaf, a bird, a child, or the PC probably are not intelligent enough.
Every sacrifice is basically intelligent selfishness.
Some men love so as to seek approval of their goodness.
You wouldn’t employ an illiterate as a peon but with the support of many other illiterates he can be your minister.
If an atom is 99.99 percent empty space, isn’t solidity a mere illusion?