Sublime

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

Si l’on fait part d’une idée à un véritable Anglais – ce qui est toujours une chose téméraire – il ne cherche jamais à savoir si l’idée est bonne ou mauvaise ; la seule chose à laquelle il attache quelque importance est de découvrir ce que l’on en pense soi-même. D’ailleurs la valeur d’une idée n’a rien à voir avec la sincérité de l’homme qui l’exp

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw (Page 1)

All this is only preliminary. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.