“ The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself. ”
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“ One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ”
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“ We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. ”
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“ Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. ”
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“ The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. ”
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“ One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ”
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“ The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy… ”
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“ Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. ”
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