bolhom
petak, 02.04.2010.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
