Occupation: Writer Birth: September 6, 1928 Death: April 24, 2017
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this l….
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values..
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food..
The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules..
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. T….
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than ….
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance..
If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral..
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"..
It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way..
It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North..
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled..
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it..
Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit be….
Familiarity can blind too..
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top..
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you..
If you run from technology, it will chase you..
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around..
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite..
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge..