Receive submissively what is sent you; wrestling to win the world invites an overthrow. Here there is no continuing home; here is but wilderness. Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beast, out of your stall! Know your true native land, look up, thank God for all things; hold the highway, let your spirit lead you; and truth shall make you free, doubt it not.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Only the educated are free.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
Long hours don’t make anybody more productive or creative; they make people stressed, tired and bitter. But the overwork myths survive “because they justify the extreme wealth created for a small group of elite techies,”
Children and fools always speak the truth
A doctor can bury his mistakes, an architect can only advise his client to plant vines....
What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough.If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, andif we command complete knowledge of available means, the problem which remains is purely one of logic. That is, the answer to the question of what is the best use of the available means is implicit in our assumptions. The conditions which the solution of this optimum problem must satisfy have been fully worked out and can be stated best in mathematical form: put at their briefest, they are that the marginal rates of substitution between any two commodities or factors must be the same in all their different uses. [From “The Use of Knowledge in Society”]
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
The state is the great fiction through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
Those Who Remain
Change is not painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce—oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
Like priests in the medieval church, ratings agency representatives spoke the equivalent of financial Latin, which few in their investor congregation actually understood. Nevertheless, the congregation was comforted by the fact that the priests appeared able to confer guidance and blessings.
It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth. Don't you think?
And what in fluctuating appearance hovers,Ye shall fix by lasting thoughts.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Manage things. Lead people.
It never gets easier, you just get faster.
Teaching to solve problems is education of the will.
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas;but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate
