#um

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#gave #giant #great #i #japan

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#answer #back #because #coming #get

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#become #combinations #grasp #had #hold

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#each #exclusively #his #humanity #individuals

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. ↗

— Malcolm X

#being #fight #freedom #human #human being

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#escapism #idea #life #my life #sum

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#chinese #climbing #columbus #down #enter

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#before #had #inquiries #inquiry #jurist

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

#halt #human #human reason #limit #must