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“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”
― Conversations with Saul Bellow
― Conversations with Saul Bellow
“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
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“Because scientists are reasonable men, one or another argument will ultimately persuade many of them. But there is no single argument that can or should persuade them all. Rather than a single group conversion, what occurs is an increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”
― Herzog
― Herzog
“We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
― New Seeds of Contemplation
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Discussion of books about Zen Buddhism in general and American Zen in particular.
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