“School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“All arguments between the traditional scientific view of man as organism, a locus of needs and drives, and a Christian view of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The earth-self observing the Cosmos and trying to understand the Cosmos by scientific principles from which its self is excluded is, beyond… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out?… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a lovely woman,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
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