Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. |
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. |
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. |
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. |
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. |
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. |
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. |
Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy. |
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. |
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm. |
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. |
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. |
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. |
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. |
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity. |