“No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.”

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.

In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.

There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design