Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to read more

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul read more

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high read more

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.