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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the read more
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper read more
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something read more
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.
Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
