126 quotes found
“Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.”
“Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.”
“The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.”
“Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.”
“Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.”
“Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.”
“Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.”
“One mistake cannot justify another.”
“Will is intention favored by emotions.”
“Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.”
“Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.”
“The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultane...”
“Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.”
“An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the d...”
“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”
“A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.”
“One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.”
“The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.”
“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”
“Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.”
