To discover a metaphysical relationship between Quality and the Buddha at some mountaintop of personal experience is very spectacular. And very unimportant. If that were all this Chautauqua was about...
To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth.
This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It’s just that it’s gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a l...
They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without ques...
There is no evidence anywhere that he ever thought of his expulsion from the university as a failure, just an enigma. The explanation I’ve come to arises from the discrepancy between his lack of faith...
The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. Art when it is opposed to Science is often romantic. It does not proceed by reas...
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.
The material object of observation, the bicycle or rotisserie, can’t be right or wrong. Molecules are molecules. They don’t have any ethical codes to follow except those people give them. The test of...
The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade.
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 has more lasting value.
One thing about pioneers that you don’t hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers.
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
It’s important now to just live with this and not fight it mentally…mind control….
It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Insanity as an absence of common characteristics is also demonstrated by the Rorschach ink-blot test for schizophrenia. In this test, randomly formed ink splotches are shown to the patient and he is a...
In my mind, when I look at these fields, I say to her, See?…See? and I think she does. I hope later she will see and feel a thing about these prairies I have given up talking to others about; a thing...
If one accepts the premise that all knowledge comes to us through our senses, Hume says, then one must logically conclude that both ‘Nature’ and ‘Nature’s laws’ are creations of our own imagination.
I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reali...
I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going.