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“But gone is the insanity of there being nothing but chance mutation and natural selection driving evolution—a notion so utterly idiotic that it reminds one of Arthur Lovejoy’s comment that “there is no human stupidity that has not found its champion.”
― Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delight
― Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delight
“Yes. She’s an interesting woman. You’ll like her,” I said, with no idea at all if he would like her.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
“In the afternoon they tied me up with a thin hemp rope. I was allowed to hide the rope under my coat when we went outside, but the young policeman gripped the end of the rope firmly. We went to Yokohama on the streetcar. The experience hadn’t upset me in the least. I missed the custody room in the police station and even the old policeman. What, I wonder, makes me that way? When they tied me up as a criminal I actually felt relieved—a calm, relaxed feeling. Even now as I write down my recollections of those days I feel a really expansive, agreeable sensation.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Cartesian dualism cannot finally be solved by any amount of logic, reasoning, or evidence (which is why it’s the most difficult problem for Western logic to solve);”
― Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delight
― Finding Radical Wholeness: The Integral Path to Unity, Growth, and Delight
“of my tragic flaws is the compulsion to add some sort of embellishment to every situation—a quality which has made people call me at times a liar—but I have almost never embellished in order to bring myself any advantage; it was rather that I had a strangulating fear of that cataclysmic change in the atmosphere the instant the flow of a conversation flagged, and even when I knew that it would later turn to my disadvantage, I frequently felt obliged to add, almost inadvertently, my word of embellishment, out of a desire to please born of my usual desperate mania for service.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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