It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who are too cunning to fight thei...
It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Rotten people will taste rotten ice cream.
The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.
There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have an idea that they will someday emerge from these i...
Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".
It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood an...
As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.
Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.
The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changes, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death fro...
Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be dra...