Robert M Quotes
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.
Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.
Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.
As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.
Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.
Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.
There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.
What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.
Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.
The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.
The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.
We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.
