If you eat dead food, you are going to feel dead. If you eat live food, you are going to feel alive.
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
It's still popular to. . . insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.