Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Truth is always strange - stranger than fiction.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed.
There is no reality except in action.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.
There are no silver bullets for this, only lead bullets.
Morality represents the way that people would like the world to work, whereas economics represents how it actually does work.
