The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.