So-called professional ...

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
 Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
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 Brendan Fletcher
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
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 Steven Pressfield
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
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 Gautama Buddha
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
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 Miyamoto Musashi
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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 Georg C. Lichtenberg
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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 Georg C. Lichtenberg
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
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 Georg C. Lichtenberg
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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 Georg C. Lichtenberg
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
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 Georg C. Lichtenberg