In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.
Interpretation
People will judge you based on how you view and present yourself.
This quote by Isaac Asimov emphasizes the importance of self-perception and authenticity. It suggests that others will form opinions about you based on how you assess your own worth and abilities, thus highlighting the need for self-awareness and confidence in one's identity.
In practice
Using this quote in a personal development workshop to encourage self-awareness.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Donβt do that. Some day weβll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
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