"The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance."

-- Marsilio Ficino

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“There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.”
“Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.”
“But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .”
“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.”
“I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins”

Source : Keith Laumer (2002). “Retief!”, Baen
“I don't think we'll really know what's going on until we enter the next dimension and all that.”
“There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.”
“Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.”

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