They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Learning for its own sake means exactly what it says: learning is the only reason that you’re doing it, because learning is what matters.
~ William Deresiewicz
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
~ Dean Acheson
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Good design must be useful.
~ Dieter Rams
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A living dog is better than a dead lion.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.
~ Charles Bukowski
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don’t know how to learn.
~ Chris Argyris
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If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson
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