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I hate having emotions about reality; I'd much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

Once, as he inhaled with his customary vehemence, I had a thought that made my armpits come alive.

As so often when Mr Rhodes gets grateful and reverent, you have to read the sentence twice, even though you didn't want to read it once.

One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.

He had promised my payout would be halfway to six figures. And it was. It was three figures.

What was Richard? He was a revenger, in what was probably intended to be a comedy.

I was once asked: 'Are you an Islamophobe?' And the answer is no. What I am is an Islamismophobe, or better say an anti-Islamist, because a phobia is an irrational fear, and it is not irrational to fear something that says it wants to kill you.

Just as I was thinking that no century could possibly be dumber than the nineteenth, along comes the twentieth. I swear, the entire planet seemed to be staging some kind of stupidity contest.

John Updike once argued that although fiction can withstand any amount of egocentricity, it is wholly allergic to narcissism.

ennui. Nevertheless, when he heard the screech of gulls he

recalled how his visitor stepped from her car and exclaimed

for him seems to have been the expected attack on London. As

One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}

let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves

All future interpretation of Greek metaphysics, including Nietzsche's, is Christian.

As ek-sisting, man sustains Da-sein in that he takes the Da, the clearing of Being, into care.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice ? or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Only a dry as dust religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic. Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world?

the question is not whether we will be extremist, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Non-violence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

I am convinced that even violent temperaments can be channeled through nonviolent discipline, if they can act constructively and express through an effective channel their very legitimate anger.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity