R.J. Lawrence Quotes
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.
I hate saying, 'I like exercising.' I want to punch people who say that in the face.
You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.
I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.