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.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.