Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School

"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful." -- Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School

Excellent!

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)

"Enlightened" philosophers have been saying this for three hundred years or more, and no sign of it happening yet!

Franklin Jones

"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely." -- Franklin Jones

Sad, but very true.

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William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born. -William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)

Hazlitt's little argument has no force. In fact the thought of death does trouble us. We recognize death as an offense, something that shouldn't happen. We know ourselves as transcendent beings. Death troubles us when we are not confident about what will come after.

James Anthony Froude, author and editor (1818-1894)

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. -James Anthony Froude, author and editor (1818-1894)

And only to certain kinds of men in fact.