One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.