Occupation: Writer Birth: September 6, 1928 Death: April 24, 2017
"When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's any better tha….
Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is..
I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the c….
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process..
Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard..
That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos..
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know..
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you b….
every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know..
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands..
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one kn….
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling..
I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles.
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth kn….
It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it..
Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosoph….
Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Qualit….
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a ….
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs ….
The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an….
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way..