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Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans
Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.
Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.
Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.
If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.
The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.
You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.
Many people see happiness only in their future.
The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!
Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.
As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.
Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.
...people don’t take trips—trips take people.
Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.
What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.
Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".
I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".
And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.
You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.
The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.
I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.