Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.