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• I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
• It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is…
• How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at…
• When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which…
• When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
• The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
• Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to…
• I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it…
• The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow,…
• A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness,…
• Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

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