"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die." |
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. |
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. |
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. |
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. |
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. |
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. |
Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain |
Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain |
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood. |
dead and dying. |
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" |
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" |
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. |
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. |