And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

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

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.