The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.