Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
The past is no farther away than your pillow.
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them