The divided mind comes to the dinner table and pecks at one dish after another, rushing on without digesting anything to find one better than the las… - Alan Watts

Eskimos have five words for different kinds of snow, because they live with it and it is important to them. But the Aztec language has but one word for snow, rain, and hail.

Все такие избыточные законы (законы, регулирующие нравственность человека и уличающие в преступлениях там, где нет невольно пострадавших) являются попытками сделать жизнь человека свободной от риска, или “защищенной от дурака”. Тем самым индивид не несет больше ответственности за свою собственную жизнь и не может по своему усмотрению рисковать для достижения политических, социальных, атлетических, научных и религиозных целей в том случае, когда такой риск кажется ему оправданным.

The fact that happiness is associated with relaxation does not mean that it is impossible to be happy in the midst of strenuous effort, for to be truly effective great effort must, as it were, revolve upon a steady unmoving center. The problem before us is how to find such a center of relaxed balance and poise in man's individual life - a center whose happiness is unshaken by the whirl that goes on around it, which creates happiness because of itself and not because of external events, and this in spite of the fact that it may experience those events in all their aspects and extremes from the highest bliss to the deepest agony.