You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
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.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.