Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and th...
Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.
The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.
You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
perhaps, all these years, historians had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral because a spiral was so difficult to describe. was war, then, the big solution after all? war the great aphrodi...
Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here because we inherited traits that allowed our ancestor...
The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quickly as possible that gift of freedom with which the miserable creature is born. But he alone can ta...
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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