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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ”
“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”
“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”
“To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”
“It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
“All actual life is encounter.”
“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.”
“A writer always writes.”
“Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think”
“Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, ...”
“High thoughts must have high language.”
“Is it better to be loved or feared?”
“Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.”
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyr...”
“Fate isnt one straight roadthere are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”
“Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.”
“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”
