When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the Universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.