“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.”
Bobby Fischer, quoted on Agadmator's YouTube channel.
“It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
John Stuart Mill, quoted without further attribution in the Epoch Times email newsletter Oct. 1, 2020 (it is in fact from On Liberty)
“He was rude and unhygienic.”
“The robot head in Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories Jan. 1, 1999” [It’s the source I recorded and I’m sticking to it although I can offer no justification for ever having watched an episode (or even knowing the show existed, which in fact I’d forgotten) except that as summaries of someone’s undesirability go this line is excellent. Google confirms that the show existed and lasted four seasons (!) and says the robot head’s name was 790 and who am I to argue?]
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,/ He, who can call today his own:/ He who, secure within, can say: ‘Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.’”
The Roman poet Horace, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In my latest Mercatornet article I say the Capitol hill riot resulted from unchecked hatred in the human heart, and should not be the trigger for more of the same from anyone.
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living