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...
But what’s potential? That’s also in someone’s mind!…Ghosts.
Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.
An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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...
Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.
It’s all right, Phaedrus said. We just accidentally stumbled over a genuine question, and the shock is hard to recover from.
Familiarity can blind you
Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop.
You don’t have to go fishing, of course, to fix your motorcycle.
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 are as many routes as there are individual souls.
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 motorcycle is a system. A real system.
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness.
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...
Normally screws are so cheap and small and simple you think of them as unimportant. But now, as your Quality awareness becomes stronger, you realize that this one, individual, particular screw is neit...