My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human beings live in vast urban environments, surrounded by other human beings and the...
What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally indifferent. It's unforgiving, uninterested. If you live or die, succeed or...
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.
In his blackest hours, Stone doubted the utility of all thought, and all intelligence. There were times he envied the laboratory rats he worked with; their brains were so simple. Certainly, they did...
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.
Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to...
Love: It may be madness or illness, but in any case it represents happiness at its peak.
The minute we look, we cease being afraid.
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.
His wife was approximately a hundred years younger than him
You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance-to confine its own....
The curtain has just come down on childhood
But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.
We are destined to live with worries, swallow sorrows, suppress anger, or let it out with laughter, jokes, and comic anecdotes.
When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn't care. It was, all of a sudden, a job.
Death begins with memory, and the death of memory is the harshest types of death.
These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material...
The ruling is a science, experience, and powerlessness, imprisonment, or arrest
If he is tricks between a person and his goal, he was eliminated by death.
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
What is the benefit of the mind in a unreasonable world
If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a broken man can heal.
Love is love, and in its presence all opposing forces vanish in the blink of an eye.
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
What materials do you like best?...
We all recognize death with our tongues. As for our hearts, it throws it into a place in time.
Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.
Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
Even if you don't believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their...
No one gets left behind, remember?
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
