You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, s….

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a l….

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are….

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128.

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see it….

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves..

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. An….

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself..

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists wh….

We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of ….

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looki….

Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or try….

How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it….

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind..

The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never ….

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Strugg….

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possibl….

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the wo….

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do..

On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundre….

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends..