The struggle of the noble, free-thinking
The track of Quality preselects what data we’re going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way as to best harmonize what we are with what we are becoming.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.
Aretê implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency...
But of course, without the top you can’t have any sides. It’s the top that defines the sides.
Classical understanding is concerned with the piles and the basis for sorting and interrelating them. Romantic understanding is directed toward the handful of sand before the sorting begins. Both are...
I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving down the empty road. 5
I tell him getting stuck is the commonest trouble of all. Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you're trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do is try not to force words to com. T...
I turn my head from side to side.
If I hold my head to the left and look down at the handle grips and front wheel and map carrier and gas tank I get one pattern of sense data. If I move my head to the right I get another slightly diff...
In a sense, he said, it’s the student’s choice of Quality that defines him. People differ about Quality, not because Quality is different, but because people are different in terms of experience.
It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.
It's a problem of our time. The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freel...
It’s an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it’s done and the talk about how it’s done never seems to match how one does it.
Like that timber wolf on the mountain he had a kind of animal courage. He went his own way with unconcern for consequences that sometimes stunned people, and stuns me now to hear about it. He did not...
Lo que me gustaría hacer ahora es usar ese tiempo para conversar sobre algunas cosas que se me vienen a la mente. Vamos con tanta prisa la mayor parte del tiempo que nunca tenemos muchas oportunidades...
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it’s a shame more people don’t switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.
Mu becomes appropriate when the context of the question becomes too small for the truth of the answer.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.
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