It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs, are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets, with that physics has one method. chemistry another. and biology a third.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness, as to earn peace and self-respect.
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.