The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.