“Truth is the language that expresses universality. Newton did not “discover” a law that lay hidden from man like the answer to a rebus. He accomplished a creative operation. He founded a human speech which could express at one and the same time the fall of an apple and the rising of the sun. Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.”
― Airman's Odyssey
― Airman's Odyssey
“Anyone who falls into the habit of thinking and expecting the best of his subordinates at all times is, for that reason alone, unsuited to command an army”
― On War
― On War
“All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims—they all come to the same thing—but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.”
― Airman's Odyssey
― Airman's Odyssey
“All creation is reducible to about a hundred and forty elements which tell the entire complex story of God’s thinking just as all literature is reducible to twenty-six letters which tell the entire complex story of all of man’s thinking.”
― The Universal One
― The Universal One
“Owning a hundred slum properties wasn’t a crime, although living in one was, almost.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
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