THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.–I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything… it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, “Here lived a great streetsweeper who did
How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Stupid is a boundless concept.