There are many, scientists among them, who stringently examine the world but not so stringently ex-amine themselves. They may be competent individuals as the world judges competence, but they are never wise. The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action....
The following people were at a family reunion: one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, two sisters, one brother, two daughters, two sons, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-in-law. What's the fewest number of people who could have attended the reunion, and who were they? Answer: Seven people are at the reunion: two girls...
You can do that. You can behave exactly as you wish. All you have to do is find the right situation in which to do so. There are two situations in which you can just be you: The first situation is when you're alone in a room....
The Frogs were living as happy as could be in a marshy swamp that just suited them; they went splashing about caring for nobody and nobody troubling with them. But some of them thought that this was not right, that they should have a king and a proper constitution,...
Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start looking like a child again. You have forgotten the intimacy, the immediacy You are no longer bridged. Knowledge functions as a wall:...
In 1510 a ship set out from the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) for Venezuela, where it was to rescue a besieged Spanish colony. Several miles out of port, a stowaway climbed out of a provision chest: Vasco Nunez de Balboa,...
I have a vision of a boy, a little boy, six years old or even younger. This boy woke up that morning in a cold damp cellar. He was dressed in a sort of little dressing-gown and was shivering with cold. There was a cloud...
1.SYCOPHANTS “Flatterers and sycophants are pests. To pursue power and profit, they try to find favor with the ruler through their pleasing talk and ingratiating manner. “When the ruler is surrounded by such people, his ears and eyes will be blocked. He cannot see his own faults,...
Still, there was one thing in those early days that was really irksome: my habit of thinking like a free man. For instance, I would suddenly be seized with a desire to go down to the beach for a swim. And merely to have imagined the sound of ripples at my...
“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.” Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher (1905–1980), Existentialist I find myself both touched and embarrassed...
