FridayOct 31, 2025
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero--really look--and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. 'You must change your life,' he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
To oppose something is to maintain it.
They did not use swords, or keep slaves. They were not barbarians. I do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect that they were singularly few. As they did without monarchy and slavery, so they also got on without the stock exchange, th
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior; power over women.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc.
It is good to have an end to towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Its queer that daylights not enough. We need the shadows, in order to walk.
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.'
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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