Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 96
Article, Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4
“Greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one.”
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Source: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness”
“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.”
2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)
Context: Have you ever seen the coyote in the desert? Watching, tuned in, completely aware. Christ on the cross, the coyote in the desert — it’s the same thing, man. The coyote is beautiful. He moves through the desert delicately, aware of everything, looking around. He hears every sound, smells every smell, sees everything that moves. He’s in a state of total paranoia, and total paranoia is total awareness.
“Where there is a vacuum of ideas, paranoia slips in.”
Source: 2002, Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right (2002), p. 254.
Context: Where there is a vacuum of ideas, paranoia slips in. Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong about their facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.
“I caution you as I was never cautioned
you will never let go, you will never be satiated.”
Source: "The Sensual World", The Seven Ages (2001)
