The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.
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How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of read more
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.
The past should be a springboard not a hammock.
The past should be a springboard not a hammock.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world read more
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and read more
If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.
Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.
Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
