The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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