My Small Boat

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Be and not seem.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, […]

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Thoughts On A Station Platform
It ought to be plain
how little you gain
by getting excited
and vexed.
You’ll always be late
for the previous train,
and always in time
for the next

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

plato told
him:he couldn’t
believe it(jesus
told him;he
wouldn’t believe
it)lao
tsze
certainly told
him, and general
(yes
mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or
not)you
told him:i told
him; we told him
(he didn’t believe it, no
sir)it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
el;in the top of his head :to tell
him
note: In the 1930s, the city of New York dismantled the Sixth Avenue elevated railroad and sold the steel as scrap to Japan […]

When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.