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As Jianhua’s father, a victim of the Cultural Revolution himself, kept telling his son, “A thing turns into its opposite if pushed too far.”
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
One of the most common benedictions of the anointed is the use of the word “science” to describe notions which are consonant with their vision, but which have neither the certainty nor the intellectual rigor of science.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
There is an old Greek proverb that reads, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Planting Trees in Shade We’ll Never Know
dailystoic.com
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