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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, read more
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness read more
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide read more
The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie read more
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
