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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

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People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 6th, 1928

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