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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while read more
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They read more
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he read more
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish read more
The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.
