The New York Times (14 March 1982)
Context: As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
“The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.”
Equinoctial Regions of America (1814-1829)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Context: And what is its moral proof? We may formulate it thus: Act so that in your own judgment and in the judgment of others you may merit eternity, act so that you may become irreplaceable, act so that you may not merit death. Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die tomorrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized. The end of morality is to give personal, human finality to the Universe; to discover the finality that belongs to it — if indeed it has any finality — and to discover it by acting.
“Religion will eventually become as offensive and unacceptable as racism.”
As quoted in Leo Szilard : His Version of the Facts, edited by S. R. Weart and G. W. Szilard, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (February 1979), Vol. 35, No. 2, p. 38
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.”
