"Things you've never thought about are always obvious. It's when you think about them that they become more complex."
Etienne Klein, May 2016 in an interview
"It's not doubt that drives you mad: it's certainty."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I think doubt is like cholesterol, there's good and bad!"
Etienne Klein
«I can't remember the books I've read any more than I can remember the meals I've eaten; yet they have shaped me.»
(Original English: «I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.»)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If your body were entrusted to the first person who came along, you would resent it; but to entrust your thought to the first person you meet, so that, if he insults you, it may be disturbed and confounded, you receive no shame?"
Epictetus
"The Republic is not made to hide the misery of the people, but to proclaim and heal it."
Jean Jaurès, Limoges speech, October 8, 1908
«If you're not ready to learn, no one can help you. If you're determined to learn, no one can stop you.»
(Original English: «If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.»)
Zig Ziglar
«Between what I think, what I mean to say, what I think I’m saying, what I actually say, what you want to hear, what you hear, and what you understand… there are ten ways we might have trouble communicating. But let’s try anyway…»
Bernard Werber
«If someone were to entrust your body to just anyone, you would be outraged; yet when you entrust your soul to just anyone, so that they may disturb and upset it with their insults, aren’t you ashamed of that?»
Epictetus' Manual – XXVIII
