Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.