Occupation: Writer Birth: September 6, 1928 Death: April 24, 2017
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to ….
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understandi….
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too..
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one….
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward..
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened..
The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Nean….
Science values static patterns..
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally..
Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they ….
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is a….
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say ….
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is..
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality..
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had all this potential, people would sa….
I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current..