“Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“When you know yourself and your strengths, there is always something you can do to raise the standard for everyone.”
― One Life
― One Life
“Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.”
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan
― Bushido, the Soul of Japan
“Passions play a constitutive role in the sort
of practical reasoning that characterizes judgment.”
― Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus
of practical reasoning that characterizes judgment.”
― Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus
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