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O! reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s: thou art a lady;
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st,
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,—
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
If it be you that stir these daughters’ hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women’s weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man’s cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall—I will do such things,—
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I’ll weep
No, I’ll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or ere I’ll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
Shakespeare. King Lear 2.4.267-288
13
Jan
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
13
Jan
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
13
Jan
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
13
Jan
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
13
Jan
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.
13
Jan
Bertrand Russel was asked by John Freeman, what message he would offer to people living a thousand years hence. In answering the question, Russell balanced the two great spheres that occupied his life:
I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral:
The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed, but look only and solely at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.
The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say: Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way, and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
13
Jan
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
13
Jan
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessnes.
[from a note written in German on stationery of the Grand Hotel in Tokyo]
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