The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.