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Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.
Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and read more
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, read more
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
