Wisdom Sayings

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Whosoever, O Mazda, by his thoughts, words, and deeds makes a sacrifice to Thee, he shall be granted the best existence.

Na Ham Hindu Na Musalmaan - I am not a Hindu, nor am I a Muslim.

Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.

Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.

Don't mix a fire with a knife.

A worm is a worm, and a man is a man. But if you compare a man to a worm, you will see that a man is only a worm.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I am not afraid to confess that I am a man who loves to dissect.

The blues is a mode of being in the world, an existential stance, a way of grappling with the catastrophes of life.

Disgust is a primitive emotion that often leads to irrational and harmful social policies.

Effective altruism is about doing the most good you can with the resources you have.

Clean up your room, bucko.