Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
Any custom is man-made and is therefore a finite attempt to describe an infinity of relationships. It follows as the night from day that any custom necessarily has its exceptions.
Another common error is to identify ‘Apollonian’ with ‘good’—merely because our most respectable sects are all rather Apollonian in ritual and precept. Mere local prejudice.
Africa and Europe responded more sensibly but differently. Life has never been sacred in Africa and those who went sight-seeing on targets got little bleeding-heart treatment.
A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.
In a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth
A government is a living organism. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. You hit it, it will fight back.
A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
What was grokking? He had been using the word for a week—and he didn’t grok it.
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce—render emot...
We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets
Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.
This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they...
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to...
They insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him.The notion that the effort has to be their own, and t...
They flew her, Matt pointed out. Sure they did—and my hat’s off to them. But it takes heroes to fly a box as primitive as this and I’m not the hero type.
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.