O hard, when love and duty clash!
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to our clients for a quarter century-a dollar invested at inception in our largest fund is now worth over 94 dollars, a 20% net compound return. We have achieved this not by incurring high risk as financial theory would suggest, but by deliberately avoiding or hedging the risks that we identified.
Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.
When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.