Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Hero worship is strongest when there is least regard for human freedom.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active — of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

Almost every software development organization has at least one developer who takes tactical programming to the extreme: a tactical tornado. The tactical tornado is a prolific programmer who pumps out code far faster than others but works in a totally tactical fashion. When it comes to implementing a quick feature, nobody gets it done faster than the tactical tornado. In some organizations, management treats tactical tornadoes as heroes. However, tactical tornadoes leave behind a wake of destruction. They are rarely considered heroes by the engineers who must work with their code in the future. Typically, other engineers must clean up the messes left behind by the tactical tornado, which makes it appear that those engineers (who are the real heroes) are making slower progress than the tactical tornado.

No one tells you running is 10 percent cardio and 90 percent negotiating with the voice begging you to quit.

If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Teach in order to learn.

There exist only two kinds of modern mathematics books: ones which you cannot read beyond the first page and ones which you cannot read beyond the first sentence.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

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The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

It’s my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free.

I do not believe that so-called truly pious people are good because they are pious but pious because they are good.

Understanding something is no reason for believing that it is true.

What am I?
What shall I do?
What may I hope and believe?
All things in philosophy can be reduced to this.

Quite a few people read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.
We have no words for speaking about wisdom to idiots.
Whoever understands the wise is wise already.

If mankind suddenly became virtuous, thousands would starve.

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.