You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do! — Paul Laffoley Artist Copy Share Image
You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him. — Paul Laffoley Book Copy Share Image
My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness. — Paul Laffoley Consciousness Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times. — Paul Laffoley Buckminster fuller Copy Share Image
I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them. — Paul Laffoley Book Copy Share Image
I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma. — Paul Laffoley Architecture Copy Share Image
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true,… — Paul Laffoley Architect Copy Share Image
Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace… — Paul Laffoley Book Copy Share Image
I thought George Adamski was actually a fraud. Looking at him, I found him repulsive. In other words, he didn't have the… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Both [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were preternaturally young. I mean, for a long time Tesla was a young man well into… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He… — Paul Laffoley Agnostic Copy Share Image
To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when… — Paul Laffoley Body Copy Share Image
I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so… — Paul Laffoley Book Copy Share Image
[My father] was always upset that my mother didn't want to live in New York. Because he said he wanted to live… — Paul Laffoley Bankers Copy Share Image
I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the… — Paul Laffoley Age Copy Share Image
Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same… — Paul Laffoley Belief Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.… — Paul Laffoley Book Copy Share Image
I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what… — Paul Laffoley Ancient Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes… — Paul Laffoley Antagonism Copy Share Image
I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of… — Paul Laffoley Archives Copy Share Image
I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings. — Paul Laffoley Art Copy Share Image
Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[Nikola Tesla and Leon Theremin] were European gentlemen, very well-mannered, all of the stuff you associate with living in Europe. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils… — Paul Laffoley Artist Copy Share Image
Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way. — Paul Laffoley Architecture Copy Share Image
![“I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b19/paul-laffoley-7077_book_i-first-heard-of-orfeo-angelucci-from-gi_53732.jpg)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/566/paul-laffoley-7077_buckminster-fuller_buckminster-fuller-would-pretend-to-be-d_2722726.jpg)
![“I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e3/paul-laffoley-7077_book_i-think-theosophical-and-masonic-books-w_2947918.jpg)
![“I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/85e/paul-laffoley-7077_give-me_i-could-do-superman-the-green-lantern-wo_970877.jpg)
![“I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0dd/paul-laffoley-7077_architecture_i-really-wanted-to-study-with-bruce-goff_1447388.jpg)
![“[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/683/paul-laffoley-7077_architect_my-father-was-always-saying-i-d-end-up-l_329214.jpg)
![“Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959]. He said Orfeo had made up a new bible.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fda/paul-laffoley-7077_book_carl-jung-put-orfeo-angelucci-in-his-las_1234467.jpg)
![“Both [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were preternaturally young. I mean, for a long time Tesla was a young man well into his 70s. And so was Theremin, even though, at the end, he looked pretty old. But he was still doing things that young guys do, beyond the time you'd normally think people…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/572/paul-laffoley-7077_doing-things_both-nikola-tesla-and-leon-theremin-were_3070914.jpg)
![“For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b81/paul-laffoley-7077_agnostic_for-years-h-p-lovecraft-was-defined-as-a_2876964.jpg)
![“To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when my mother would want to have people over she'd tell [my father], "Don't start with the gravity stuff." And then he would invariably do this and the guests would look at each other…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d1c/paul-laffoley-7077_body_to-have-that-radical-a-mind-in-that-bour_3151518.jpg)
![“[My father] was always upset that my mother didn't want to live in New York. Because he said he wanted to live in a hotel and not have to mow the lawn and all that. In other words, he never liked sports clothes, he always liked to be dressed up formally, 24/7. And he drove big cars and, you know…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9f2/paul-laffoley-7077_bankers_my-father-was-always-upset-that-my-mothe_2747791.jpg)
![“I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the time he was 15, I think probably from age 12 to 15, my grandfather made him demonstrate mediumistic powers at the Exeter Street Theater, the first Spiritualist church in the United States.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a65/paul-laffoley-7077_age_i-was-born-rather-late-in-my-father-s-li_443162.jpg)
![“Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief, that the idea of magnetism attracting something was not the reason why the effects of what we call gravity occur.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a2/paul-laffoley-7077_belief_walter-c-wright-has-a-more-cogent-presen_373692.jpg)
![“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a35/paul-laffoley-7077_book_the-whole-thing-that-dante-alighieri-did_82075.jpg)
![“I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/439/paul-laffoley-7077_because-i-can_i-said-well-why-do-you-believe-in-the-kl_2094570.jpg)
![“While often being called transdisciplinary, theonomous reasoning is actually a first step back to ancient wisdom in which methodological sensation [or what we now know as science] has completely merged with methodological revelation [or totally known mystical knowledge in which every aspect of the…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00a/paul-laffoley-7077_ancient_while-often-being-called-transdisciplina_2189202.jpg)
![“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/faa/paul-laffoley-7077_able_buckminster-fuller-was-quite-willing-to_1724572.jpg)
![“I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/38b/paul-laffoley-7077_angle_i-would-have-private-conversations-with_1024797.jpg)
![“I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of the John Hay Library, you have all of Lovecraft's archives. And messing around in there, I noticed, I said, what are these paintings? And the librarian told me, "Well, those…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b7e/paul-laffoley-7077_archives_i-mean-these-are-really-dedicated-people_1355532.jpg)
![“My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a41/paul-laffoley-7077_continuing_my-father-knew-all-about-this-stuff-c-w_1801442.jpg)
![“[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that would go over there, and then something else would happen.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/273/paul-laffoley-7077_exchanging_nikola-tesla-was-thinking-of-parts-actua_2197568.jpg)
![“[Nikola Tesla and Leon Theremin] were European gentlemen, very well-mannered, all of the stuff you associate with living in Europe.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c7e/paul-laffoley-7077_associates_nikola-tesla-and-leon-theremin-were-euro_900295.jpg)
