However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It’s not very factual on motorcycles either.
He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting. That'...
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
Unless you’re fond of hollering you don’t make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of th...
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know. There's not a mechanic or scientist or technician alive who...
Some things you miss because they’re so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don’t see because they’re so huge.
Now anybody can be kind. And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the...
It’s not the technology that’s scary. It’s what it does to the relations between people,
It’s all right, Phaedrus said. We just accidentally stumbled over a genuine question, and the shock is hard to recover from.
It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.
If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.
He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no external pushing to learn. His push would come from inside. He’d be a free man. He wouldn’t need a lo...
An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results.
Но да се унищожи една фабрика или да се въстане срещу едно правителство, или да не се поправи един мотоциклет, защото е система, означава да се атакуват следствията, а не причините; и докато борбата е...
What you need is an hypothesis for how you’re going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn’t provide any of these hypotheses. It operates only after they’re around. This i...
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time....
There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. It’s all a ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world we live in. It’s run by ghosts. We see wha...
The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we’re all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely among them almost has to f...