This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.
Vergleichende Anatomie der Engel. On the comparative anatomy of angels.
Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological. . . at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.
It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine