The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing read more

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower read more

It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex read more

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, read more

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.