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- Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another…
- Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
- Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any…
- Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful…
- Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to…
- Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence…
- There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked…
- There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle