The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future.
Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
Kad jedna osoba pati od iluzije,
I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. Classics read well this way.
I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reali...
Degeneracy can be fun but it’s hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
That Quality was the effect of subjects and objects. It was not! He brought out his knife. The sun of quality, he wrote, does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not...
Duller than ditchwater. Yah
But it can’t tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination—unstuckn...
You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time.
What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding and unites them into one.
What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a ki...
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
To discover a metaphysical relationship between Quality and the Buddha at some mountaintop of personal experience is very spectacular. And very unimportant. If that were all this Chautauqua was about...
To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth.
This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It’s just that it’s gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a l...