Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
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!
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.