One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.
Sometimes just the act of writing down the problems straightens out your head as to what they really are. The
That is impractical, but practicality isn’t the whole thing with gloves or with anything else.
The branches and leaves move with each light breeze as if it were expected, were what had been waited for all this time.
The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws—which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.
The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton. ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!Mind has no matter or...
The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn’t separate from the rest of your existence.
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 place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outwards from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk...
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 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 ultimate test is always your own serenity. If you don’t have this when you start and maintain it while you’re working you’re likely to build our personal problems right into the machine.
There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety. The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not...
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for...
They were living in some kind of movie projected by this intellectual, electromechanical machine that had been created for their happiness, saying: PARADISE PARADISE PARADISE but which had inadvertent...
Walk into any of a hundred thousand classrooms today and hear the teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish principles and study methods and what you will hear is the ghost of Aristo...
What had to be seen was that the Chris I missed so badly was not an object but a pattern, and that although the pattern included the flesh and blood of Chris, that was not all there was to it. The pat...
What’s wrong with technology is that it’s not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. People...
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