New Quotations in English
They struck at the tree with an ax; and the tree said: “The handle is made from my body.”
Where, then, have all the lovers gone?
And when did all our friendship end,
And what’s become of every friend?
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The principal goal of education is to create individuals who are capable of doing new things.
The best way to treat children is to treat them as equals.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
There was a time when academia was society’s refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers.
For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.
A debt is the obligation to pay a certain sum of money. As a result, a debt, unlike any other form of obligation, can be precisely quantified. This allows debts to become simple, cold, and impersonal-which, in turn, allows them to be transferable.
The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.
In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each other—by providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of others.
