What the classical formalists meant by the objection Quality is just what you like was that this subjective, undefined quality he was teaching was just romantic surface appeal. Classroom popularity co...
What you have to do, if you get caught in this gumption trap of value rigidity, is slow down – you’re going to have to slow down anyway whether you want to or not – but slow down deliberately and go o...
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.
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts. Mark Twain’s experience comes to mind, in w...
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...
You always suppress momentary anger at something you deeply and permanently hate.
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...
You don’t count. You’re not what they’re looking for. You’re not on TV.
You don’t have to go fishing, of course, to fix your motorcycle.
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 never gain something but that you lose something. And now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms...
You, sir, what are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed? But Phaedrus is prepared. Forensic, deliberative and epideictic, he answers calmly. What are the epidei...
Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.
Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.
Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop.
Grades really cover up failure to teach.
Huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man.
Metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
Stylized cars and stylized outboard motors and stylized typewriters and stylized clothes. Stylized refrigerators filled with stylized food in stylized kitchens in stylized houses. Plastic stylized toy...
The competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth
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