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The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.
The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and read more
He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into read more
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that read more
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
