Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is quite staggering. The aim of education is the wise use of leisure. To teach is to learn twice. Nothing is worth more than this day.
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. Unfortunately, it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.