To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so. - Samuel Butler

You can have all ego, or all non-ego, but in theory you cannot have half one and half the other — yet in practice this is exactly what you must have, for everything is both itself and not itself at one and the same time.'''

There is nothing less powerful than knowledge unattached, and incapable of application. That is why what little knowledge I have has done myself personally so much harm. I do not know much, but if I knew a good deal less than that little I should be far more powerful.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.