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 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 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 classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown kno...
Perhaps the best single thing to learn is to recognize a value trap when you’re in it and work on that before you continue on the machine.
One student laid it wide open when she said with complete candor, Of course you can’t eliminate the degree and grading system. After all, that’s what we’re here for. She spoke the complete truth. The...
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.
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...
It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.
In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, Thou art that, which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive ar...
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
I feel happy to be here, and still a little sad to be here too. Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical disco...
Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing’s quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you’ll never regret
Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. If you haven’t got it there’s no way the motorcycle can possibly be fixed. But if you have got it and know how to keep it there’s abs...
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application...
Dato che non ci siamo abituati, di solito non ci accorgiamo che esiste un terzo termine logico possibile equivalente al sì e al no, il quale è in grado di espandere la nostra conoscenza in una direzio...
But in the secondary America we’ve been through, of back roads, and Chinaman’s ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumbleb...
Birisi nankörse ve siz ona nankör olduğunu söylerseniz, en fazla ona bir ad takmış olursunuz ama hiçbir şeyi çözmüş olmazsınız.