Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
The law is the survival of the fittest. . . . The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.
It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.
Kissing Sinclair was like making out with a sexy timber wolf— he was licking my fangs and nipping me lightly and growling under his breath and it was. . . oh, it was really something.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.