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Like so many other animals, we have an often-frantic need to conform, belong, and obey. Such conformity can be markedly maladaptive, as we forgo better solutions in the name of the foolishness of the crowd.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Behave (2017), ch. 12, “Hierarchy, Obedience, and Resistance”, p. 451
The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them.
José Saramago1922–2010Blindness (1995), p. 284
I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.
Charles M. Schulz1922–2000Peanuts
There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz1922–2000
No problem is so formidable that you can’t walk away from it.
Charles M. Schulz1922–2000
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius⁠—and a lot of courage⁠—to move in the opposite direction.
ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Often credited to Albert Einstein
It is best to bear what cannot be changed.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 107, 9
- Change
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXIII: On Drunkenness, Line 18.
Oftentimes a reverse has but made room for more prosperous fortune.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCI: On the Lesson to be Drawn From the Burning of Lyons
- Failure
- Luck
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, Line 1
“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind
- Change
- Friendship
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Robert W. Service1874–1958The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907)In context
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o’-love, the lady that’s known as Lou.
Robert W. Service1874–1958The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1907)In context
Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (1596–7), Act III, scene i.In context