Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.

要成为艺术家，你必须放弃一切，包括成为好艺术家的欲望。

Sustained outrage makes you stupid.

The most enduring changes come from understanding the root causes of problems, not just their symptoms.