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...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do read more
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a read more
The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a "safe" code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.
Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his read more
Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater read more
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
