There are about 2,000 “Observations” in this book.
Every this is connected to every that.
Time is a luxury.
Facts last.
Everything matters.
There is no last frontier.
To fly, we require both left and right wings.
We learn how little we know.
Our time is at the mercy of our priorities.
The genius sees the same thing differently.
Health is wealth.
To desire nothing is to desire something.
Wisdom is to know how little one knows.
Tyranny is no less adept than virtue.
Sound can be music.
There will always be opposition.
Opposition is how nature sustains life.
Silence is the last word.
Those who enjoy listening to themselves become their sole audience.
Someone’s got to go first.
A lower cost can result in a higher price.
We’ve made food entertainment.
Nothing can be more than it is.
Everything grows older.
Affluence can buy comfort but not serenity.
Ideas age.
Perfection exquisite to behold is painful to achieve.
Nature has no morals.
Nothing begins; nothing ends.
The one certainty is uncertainty.
We mostly preach to the choir.
It need not be expensive to be tasteful.
Everybody wants love, nobody understands it.
Life is clumsy.
Truth is patient.
Knowledge piggybacks.
Time takes.
Life happens.
Love’s pain echoes.
We exist within.
Knowledge reveals our ignorance.
We don’t know what we don’t know.
Bodies reveal much.
Capitalism exploits weakness.
All wisdom converges.
Knowledge everywhere awaits discovery.
Our world is what we are.
Nature laughs last.
Life is work.
Reality is neutral.
Silence is the better part of wisdom.