Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Disputed
Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.
“The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”
“Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.”
How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe p. 5
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Context: Although all things are not to be judged in this manner, I mention it in the investigation of the Way of the Samurai. When the time comes, there is no moment for reasoning. And if you have not done your inquiring beforehand, there is most often shame. Reading books and listening to people's talk are for the purpose of prior resolution.
Above all, the Way of the Samurai should be in being aware that you do not know what is going to happen next, and in querying every item day and night. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances.
