Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.