The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.
I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
Dr. Albert Hirsch: [to David Webb] Will you commit yourself to this program?
Sgt. Drucker: [to Albert] I paged your ass all day. I can't stand fuckin' pagin'.
The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.
Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.
The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will r...
Teddy Brewster: [showing Einstein a photo] This is the picture I was telling you about, General. Here we are, both of us. President Roosevelt and General Goethals. That's me, General, and that's you. Dr. Einstein: My how I've changed.
Never judge a student's skill on the bases of his academic success; you may never know that he could be tomorrow's Einstein.
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.
Where there is life, there is hope.
God's grace is the power to forgiveness.
Perfect beauty could be so ugly.
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
