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“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.”
Counsels and Maxims • Arthur Schopenhauer“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“Scientific truth is characterized by its exactness and the certainty of its predictions. But these admirable qualities are contrived by science at the cost of remaining on a plane of secondary problems. leaving intact the ultimate and decisive questions. … Yet science is but a small part of the human mind and organism. Where it stops, man does not stop.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.”
Fragment • Epictetus