The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi). " Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.