Robert M Quotes

This forest silence improves anyone.

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.

Heresy, " by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime, " implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Your sky is full of stars and my arms too short to reach a piece to call my own

grades really cover up failure to teach.

Our fate liesin the handsof the things we loveand sometimesthe things we loveare the thingsthat lead usto the fatal destructionof ourselves.

She was the death of me, the beginning and the end.And I never understood her, for how could someoneSo beautiful be the causeof so much destructionafter all.

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold

A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, “If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.” He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.

Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk beat his wife - and watch TV.

The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.

People are always asking about the good old days. I say why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.