What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.
We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
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