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The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Jul 04, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Jul 02, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Jul 02, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

Jul 02, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>