The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.