Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Source: General System Theory (1968), 4. Advances in General Systems Theory, p. 83
“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
As it is: The consolation of action (p. 194)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
“People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.”
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 80
Context: We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality. If war should come, it will do so on account of our delusions, for which our hag-ridden conscience attempts to find moral excuses. To recover a sense of reality is to recover the truth about ourselves and the world in which we live, and thereby to gain the power of keeping this world from flying asunder.
“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
"John Rivers" in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Source: The Genius And The Goddess
“Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.”
Freedom and Death (1956)
Context: We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.
Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, p. 32
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Context: In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
2012-11-02
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/02/mitt-romneys-closing-argument-advance-excerpts/
Mitt Romney’s closing argument: Advance excerpts
The Washington Post
2012
