4 quick proverbs
It has been said there is a fine line between genius and insanity… well I say there is an even finer line between sanity and stupidity.
If knowledge is power then wisdom is responsibility.
Necessity is the mother of good inventions, luxury the harlot of evil ones.
Good hiding places are easy to get lost in.
Make of them what you will…
Man thinks so as not to feel, and feels so as not to think.
One becomes ready for life’s answers only when one has become capable of asking the right questions.
Virtue in ignorance. That which man encounters and cannot subsume and encompass within himself, subsumes and encompasses him.
Good-will is often and only a refinement of ill-will that has come to a need for stealth and secrecy—and has there ever been a peace that was not also and perhaps primarily only a refinement of violence?
finer than what?
Finer than the line between genius and insanity.
Three Times Great
In passion, we begin to lose our mind, in reason, our soul. We cannot hold on to reason and passion together, for the weight of them both is too much to bear.
“If my answers frighten you, Vincent, then you should cease asking scary questions.”
The question of fundamental importance is - do we seek to adapt nature to ourselves, or ourselves to nature?
The only real difference between man and dog - a dog may bark before he bites, but a man may laugh or wimper, for the beast loves purely and hates purely, but whenever man loves or hates, he holds back a piece of himself.