The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one’s work so as to obtain a...
The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself,
The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of ration...
The predicted results of scientific enquiry and the actual results of scientific enquiry are diametrically opposed here, and no one seems to pay too much attention to the fact. The purpose of scientif...
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the pas...
The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man’s consciousness, are a part of nature’s order too. The central part.
The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for new ones there seems to be growing havoc and destruction along its banks. In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consci...
The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane!
The man who suffers a heart attack and is taken off the train at New Rochelle has had all his static patterns shattered, he can’t find them, and in that moment only Dynamic Quality is available to him...
The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It’s psychic distance, and in Montana and Idaho the physical distances are big but the psych...
The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws—which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What’s really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inabilit...
Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
Programs of a political nature are important of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual val...
Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep.
One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.
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 completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse t...
Now there was an alternative explanation: people disagreed about Quality because some just used their immediate emotions whereas others applied their overall knowledge.