Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 – 20 hindsight. It’s good for seeing where you’ve been. It’s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can’t tell you where you ought to go.
The more you read, the more you calm down.
It’s better not to see than to see wrongly.
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good – Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas.
The pencil is mightier than the pen.
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we’re all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on “good” rather than on “time”...
The real cycle you’re working on is a cycle called yourself.
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.
It’s so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.