"An excess of reason is itself a form…" — Kim Stanley

"An excess of reason is itself a form of madness"

— Kim Stanley

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41 Quotes by Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they…
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do…
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a,…
Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every…
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic…
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell…
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it…
It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall…

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy. — Bob Beauprez
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess… — Bob Beauprez
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar… — Aeschylus
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
Never order food in excess of your body weight. — Erma Bombeck
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the… — Giacomo Casanova
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I… — Giacomo Casanova

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