If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.