Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.
A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else.
To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.
Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Personally, I like to put things in perspective.
