In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNo tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialReaders, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll gold is fool's gold.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialFor this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHas joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHow long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOf all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.