Best Edward Abbey Lines
- Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. Call
- There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our… All
- The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it. Earth
- Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. Base
- My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. Computer
- My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He… Cousin
- God is love? Not bloody likely. Bloody
- In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside… All
- Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things. Around Things
- Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. Desert
- The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. Absurd
- Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. Accompanied
- I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere. Always Write
- Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither. Cows
- This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got. Illusion
- Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. Enjoyment
- It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I… All
- We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… Awe
- I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay. Believe
- The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality. Cow
- Humility is a virtue when you have no other. Humility
- Beware of the man who has no enemies. Beware
- Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore. All
- Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds. Any
- The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life. Crude
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