Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
But apart from a personality what is there? Some bones and flesh. A collection of legal statistics, perhaps, but surely no person.
Birisi nankörse ve siz ona nankör olduğunu söylerseniz, en fazla ona bir ad takmış olursunuz ama hiçbir şeyi çözmüş olmazsınız.
And I think it’s about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource—individual worth.
A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance.
A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance. If you were to show an engine or a mechanical...
The thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully then ev...
Most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
Grades really cover up failure to teach.
Classically as well as romantically ugly because it means the cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.
Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop.
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through t...
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 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. And if you project forward from that pattern, then...
You don’t count. You’re not what they’re looking for. You’re not on TV.
You always suppress momentary anger at something you deeply and permanently hate.
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...
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 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 makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness. Familiarity can blind you too.