Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the r...
No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two...
We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the...
A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we car...
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in