But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.
Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.
Why are people so unkind?
Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.
A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.
The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties.
Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.
Business is essentially applied rationality: a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go to business school, it's possible to dramatically increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost - without setting foot inside a classroom.
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.