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In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. Hold a true friend with both hands. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. Never judge a book by its movie. Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. My empty waterdish mocks me. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl. This is quite a three-pipe problem. There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. There was a young man of Dundoo, War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. All great truths begin as blasphemies. All professions are conspiracies against the laity. Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches. He who has never hoped can never despair. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity. Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing. Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. |
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