Wisdom of the day · 13 September 2026

Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.