But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.