If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.