Nietzsche
"He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon."
"We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way — not at all or in an interesting manner."
Ambrose Bierce
Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
