You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fana...
When she first came here she used to think there was somebody up in those big buildings who knows what's going on here. They would never come down and talk to her. After a while she found out nobody k...
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...
What’s new? is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.
What is the truth and how do you know it when you have it?... How do we really know anything? Is there an I a soul, which knows, or is this soul merely cells coordinating senses?... Is reality basical...
We’ve won it. It’s going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on good rather than time and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.
This book offers another, more serious alternative to material success. It’s not so much an alternative as an expansion of the meaning of success to something larger than just getting a good job and s...
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...
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...
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...
The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness...
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.
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself. And what Phaedrus saw in the isolat...
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 dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are value free, that is, quality free, has got to go.
The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current mode...