As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.