James Siegel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

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