You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.
Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.