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"Jefferson instead recognizes that the multitude will act at times on the basis of ignorance, and yet he still affirms not only their right to rebel but also the benefits of their rebellion. His thinki…"

"The scepticism of the ancient world left no department of human belief unassailed. It took its chief stand upon the conflicting nature of the impressions of the senses, but threw the dark shade of unc…"

"Still haunted by Haiku, and tried my hand at it, but I fall pitifully short of the Wordsworthian touch. But failure in this realm turned my mind to an old enthusiasm of mine, the Welsh englyn. This ve…"

"Many analysts have fallen for the right-wing construction of a new world. Suddenly they think they must have missed something fundamental, some tectonic shift that was rumbling, undetected, beneath th…"

"I’m not a lesbian. I don’t want to be either. I’ve always thought of myself as a male homosexual ... I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for transvestite and gay men becuz they seemed to me to be …"

"Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people."

"I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening."

"When we represent technology to ourselves through its own common sense we think of ourselves as picking and choosing in a supermarket, rather than within the analogy of the package deal. We have bough…"

"Incoherence is not the monopoly of madness: all the main ideas of a sane man are irrational erections build up, for better or worse, to express his deepest feelings."

"Thinking things through is hard work and it sometimes seems safer to follow the crowd. That blind adherence to such group thinking is, in the long run, far more dangerous than independently thinking t…"

"I was sitting alone in an empty locker room, left leg injured. I need to prove my worth when the opportunity is given. I look at my leg, powerless, and wonder why I had to get hurt in this moment. The…"

"Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness."

"Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation."

"Don’t look at the idoru’s face. She is not flesh; she is information. She is the tip of an iceberg, no, an Antarctica, of information. Looking at her face would trigger it again: she was some unthinka…"

"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself."

"The realization that God is not the source of morality is, I think, one of the great contributions of philosophy to clarifying human thought."

"I think it should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun."

"There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds."

"I have been among the officers who have said that a large land war in Asia is the last thing we should undertake. Most of us, when we use that term, are thinking about getting into a land war against …"

"To one whose mind is sound, letters are needless."