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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

there rose this man Krishna, and in the Gita he tries to reconcile the ceremony and the philosophy of the priests and the people.

The orthodox Hindu [the Mimâmsaka] does not believe in gods, the unorthodox believe in them.

Trent I'm making Gretzky's head bleed for super-fan 99 over here

I am still learning how to be a good creature. Though I try earnestly, I often fail. But I am having a great life trying...

I have not the slightest desire to see the wonders of nature', said E. 'Of course not my dear. But what else can we do?

What if you read a book you like, and want to write a screenplay based on that book? To find out if the rights to that book are available, call the publisher of the hard-bound edition. Ask for the motion picture and theatrical rights division. They will tell you if the rights are available; if they are, they will refer you to the author's agent.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.

If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.

That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.

Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

The questions you framed are unanswerable, and to be terrified by that is a sign not of weakness but of strength. A weak person wouldn't have opened his mind to such terror.

His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche.

Squeezed uncomfortably into a corner the chaplain looked at him with a malevolence so habitual that it was almost indifference.

It was through him that the novices began to practise levitation.

all her thoughts slid together again like a pack of hounds that have picked up the scent.

Live Songs, he said, represented "a very confused and

M. Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.