It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
So little time and so little to do.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.