Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.
Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.
Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts. Bones to Gregor