Domheid is hetzelfde gif als een medicijn. Domheid is zeer nuttig, maar om deze stomme behoefte te gebruiken om, zoals elk wapen, kan het gevaarlijk zijn in ongeschoolde handen. Domheid kan angst en neuroses overwinnen, zich ontdoen van onnodige verlangens en afhankelijkheden, of, bijvoorbeeld, inspireren tot een prestatie. Domheid is mooi en erg nuttig als je weet hoe je het moet gebruiken.
I do not advise you to abuse memory training, the better a person's memory, the more he is an idiot. Why would he? He remembers everything by heart. However, bad memory is also not a sign of a big mind.
The main reason for stupidity is that fools are very afraid that someone will find out about their stupidity. Hidden behind the solid walls of their minds, stupidity grows and thrives.
As soon as I see silliness in something, I want to destroy it at once by creating wisdom and crashing the silliness with it. Hence, I like silliness as it's a source for wisdom. Silliness is food for wisdom...
Creating wisdom for no reason is not sensible... but silly things are nice reasons for creating wisdom.
The best way to get rid of passion and silly desires is to fulfil them and soon feel all their hidden dangers.
The best way to get rid of passion is to give in to its temptation.
Beware of your desires... Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
But in order to realize it, it's necessary to experience it first.
The best helper of a wise man is a fool. The stupidity of fools is endless. As they are ready to endlessly produce a stream of endless stupidity. A wise man only has to follow a fool and turn the carbon of stupidity into diamonds of wisdom...
Ignorance is power. The less you know the better you sleep. Hence, there's no fear in the soul. And as is known, fearless people are terribly powerful.
It's necessary to treat others with indulgence. Mistakes make people stronger and smarter and it's only overcoming mistakes that makes people better. A teacher who blames a pupil who makes mistakes while learning, is a fool. As someone who never makes mistakes is probably the worst pupil who doesn't feel like learning anything.
Foolishness and lies are the mechanisms that allow paradoxes to exist. There are a lot of things that shouldn't exist, but they do exist because of foolishness or lies.