Statistically the next extinction-level impact event isn't due for another 35 million years, so until then, we'll either have to accept, tolerate, and suffer the prevailing evil—or find a way to evolve...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance is a defense of individualism, nonconformity, and trust in one's inner intuition...download the ebook from our Free Ebook Library

The wisdom conveyed in this letter by Tolstoy to Gandhi is important, and should be shared as far and wide as possible, so we've published it in our Free Ebook Library...

If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn...

Truth is essential to the economic means in order that the parties have precision in the property interests being exchanged, as well as other terms of the contract. Because political activity is grounded in lies, exaggerations, deceptions, and corrupt practices, truth is largely an irrelevant factor...

George Washington's farewell address to the nation issued such prescient warnings, you'd think he wrote it today! Download the free ebook...

Time, like real estate, is valuable—primarily because there is a limited supply of both; there’s no way of producing any more of either...

If years of hard work—i.e., killing yourself—is what achieving your ambition requires, then you should find something you love, and let that kill you...

When we focus on the competition and the winning, rather than the fun and the experience, we make it much more difficult—if not impossible—to enjoy the activity, and likely ruin it for everyone else involved too...

All the hatred, division, violence, war, oppression, etc. are a result of what WE are doing. It's not Satan. It’s me, it's you, it's us. The problem is not the demons of hell, but the demons within...

An unfortunate paradox that we all face is this: humanity tends to revere non-conformists from the past, but persecute them in the present...

In The First Step, or The Morals of Diet, Tolstoy portrays the inhumane treatment of farm animals, and advocates vegetarianism. Free ebook