Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds — Albert Einstein, others
"When you want to avoid being a charlatan, you must stay away from the stage; because once you get on it, you're forced to be a charlatan, otherwise the crowd will throw stones at you."
-Nicolas Chamfort
-Nicolas Chamfort
“What a strong and continuous will is capable of is not always appreciated. Nothing resists it; neither nature, gods, nor men.” — Gustave Le Bon
"Explaining something makes it go away. Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable." - Edward Gorey
How do you design a life that doesn't put work first? The answer, my dear reader is simple. You start underachieving at work. -Paul Millerd in The Pathless Path
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
“The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude.” —Noam Chomsky
"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization." —Peter Kropotkin
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne
“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free". A. Schopenhauer
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius
“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.” - Alice Roosevelt