Science values static patterns.

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.