What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
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.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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.
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!
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.