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this nature is twofold; it includes not only the whole visible world of phenomena which is outside man, but also, in a wider sense, man himself; not his body alone, but his soul also.

Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.

The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]

In de tijd dat ik veronderstelde een revolutionair te zijn liet ik mijn baard groeien. De revolutie kwam echter niet. Ik had te weinig idealen.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.

To all those people who say that the Tea Party is a racist organization, eat your words.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

There floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

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His teeth were now rattling on hers: knock-knock, who's there? Bicuspids. Bicuspids who? Bicuspids McAllister. And then his tongue came flicking out, looking for an opening, any opening, even a missing tooth. But she had no missing teeth and all the teeth she did have were clenched together as in a snapped bear trap.

He tried to avoid the eyes of the weather-beaten old Yankee. With guys like that around, no wonder the British ended up with all their fucking tea in Boston Harbor.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Sir, my inferior understanding prevents my grasping the unquestionable soundness of the mission.

the irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.

that in the chain of memory into which we are forged the first links should be the strongest, as if they, just they, were the most real reality.

But I am totally captive; the text there is too powerful and will not allow itself to be torn from its meaning.22

Because the worst literature, my father would say, is always written with the best intentions

what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.

What all tendencies, branches and splinters of anarchism—and there are quite a few—have in common is their opposition to every form of hierarchy and inequality. It

More than the threatening tone, what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.

Not to say surprise no. Too smooth by half I've always thought him.