Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.
タグ: philosophy, fear

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The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.
タグ: instrument, play, only, myself
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
タグ: flowers, responsibility, education, love
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
タグ: forever, need, time, silence
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
タグ: wood, like, trying, understand
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
タグ: brave, beautiful, eyes, love
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