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“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”
― Herzog
― Herzog
“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
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
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“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
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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
Zen Buddhism
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Discussion of books about Zen Buddhism in general and American Zen in particular.
Stephen’s 2025 Year in Books
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