“Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency.”

No man is free who is not master of himself.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.