Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAmong politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll governments require enemy governments.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
@colstar13.bsky.socialWaterfall at Newstead Abbey, Nottingham. #waterfall #newstead #abbey #nottingham
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPlatitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe Four Corners was "the place where the tangible and the mythical became the same."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMusic begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.