With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
I can do a gig without an instrument