Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.
In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spring and summer and apathetically waiting for the in...
Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will he...
Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish
It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.
Given enough time, even evolution evolves.
People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith Go...
If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my fat...
There were no milestones in the Copper Country. Often a traveler could only measure the progress of a journey by the time it took to get from each spoiled or broken thing to the next: a half-day’s walk from a dry well to the muzzle of a cannon poki...
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.
Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to someth...
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.
Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.
Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.
Being reliable is something. Being good.
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is ...
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
