It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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!
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.