The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn’t be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It’s the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God’s enemy.
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
God’s relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
We men are fascinated by the things we don’t really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.