You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.
Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.
I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.
All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.
Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.