Quotes from T.Z. Lavine

One cannot step twice into the same river

None is absolutely true.

Who guards the guardians?

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.

only a fool obeys the law if it is against his own advantage.

The Good Life is not the life of reason alone, but that of the dominance of reason over the spirited energies and the bodily appetites.

Drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, Ã¢â'¬Â¦ at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere.

These three laws, by which our thinking is naturally impelled from one idea to another which resembles it, or which is next to it, or is its effect—these three laws characterize all our mental operations, including all our reasoning, and specifically they characterize our scientific ideas. Of the three laws of association of ideas, the association or connection of ideas by cause and effect, says Hume, is the most powerful connection between our ideas.