The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.