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“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”
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“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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“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
“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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