And what is good, Phaedrus,And what is not good—Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
An untrained observer will see only physical labor and often get the idea that physical labor is mainly what the mechanic does. Actually the physical labor is the smallest and easiest part of what the...
Actually, a root word of technology, , originally meant art. The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.
Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.
A photograph can show a physical image in which time is static, and a mirror can show a physical image in which time is dynamic, but I think that what he saw on the mountain was another kind of image...
The incredible contrasts of the best and worst...both exist here in such terrific intensity because New York’s never been committed to any preservation of its static patterns. It’s always ready to cha...
What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
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 discomfort doesn’t...
As long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible.
And he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free from social authority and this is an institution of social authority.
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes much 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,...
When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the tim...
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.
We are all of us very arrogant and conceited about running down other people’s ghosts but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own.
To the ocean. That sounds right. Where the waves roll in slowly and there’s always a roar and you can’t fall anywhere. You’re already there.
To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you see you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosoph...
These were the underdogs, the outsiders, the pariahs, the sinners of his system. But the reason he was so concerned about them was that he felt the quality and strength of his entire system of organiz...
The nature of our culture is such that if you were to look for instruction in how to do any of these jobs, the instruction would always give only one understanding of Quality, the classic. It would te...
The motorcycle is a system. A real system.