wisdom

"Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given."

"The Pentagon’s judgments about the world have generally proved sounder than the CIA’s. In the 1960s, the CIA said that the Soviets wouldn’t put missiles in Cuba; in the 1970s, that their missiles were…"

"Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wi…"

"The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" , is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing hims…"

"Revolutions hew the past to pieces and cast it into a cauldron, but what has emerged is the old Aeson with a new visage."

"reathing... allows us these levers into systems that we can't otherwise control. ...he is supposed to be beyond our control. ...When you breath a certain way, you can influence ...functions and you ca…"

"May's The Courage to Create - Loren Webster interprets May's book The Courage to Create in a series of insightful essays"

"What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by "a few bad apples," it was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy that has dismantled those wise c…"

"At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose."

"Literature ... seeks to entertain — and why is this? ... The reason, fundamentally, is that literature knows something that science does not: the human resistance to hearing the truth. Science does no…"

"No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had."

"Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can."

"Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort."

"Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him, and that he has a right to the presence o…"

"Automation...the White Death...deindustrilization. Trump throws bombast and bluster at the problem. Andrew Yang sees the problem for what it is and offers understanding, sympathy, and solutions. Every…"

"Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai... Other forms of Judai…"

"“Of the whole population of Hindustan it is notorious that five parts in six are composed of Hindus, the adorers of images, and the whole concerns of trade and manufacture… are entirely under the mana…"

"Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world."

"With this vector space you can do amazing things, if you take the vector from king to queen, it's pretty much the same vector as between man and woman. ...ecause really a high dimension manifold, we c…"

"The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as wel…"