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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
 
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
 
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
 
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
 
To be authentic literally means to be your own author.
 
We have been trained to think of patterns, with the exception of those of music, as fixed affairs. It is easier and lazier that way but, of course, all nonsense. In truth, the right way to begin to think about the pattern which connects is to think of it as primarily (whatever that means) a dance of interacting parts and only secondarily pegged down by various sorts of physical limits and by those limits which organisms characteristically impose.
 
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.
 
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
 
... we may say of the receptors, the effectors, of the intellect and the other capacities that they are primarily safety-seeking tools.
 
The first step to finding a solution is to admit that there is a problem.
 
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
 
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
 
What we see depends on mainly what we look for.
 
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
 
Confidence is believing you are of value. Arrogance is believing you are more valuable than others.
 
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
 
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
 
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
 
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
 
The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.
 
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