Occupation: Writer Birth: September 6, 1928 Death: April 24, 2017
Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values i….
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier n….
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those pa….
The more you look, the more you see..
Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be compl….
The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objecti….
What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge th….
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusio….
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think t….
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event..
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded i….
You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They ….
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions..
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included..
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous..
So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?.
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas.
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life..
Data without generalization is just gossip..
The more you read, the more you calm down..
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do..