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“The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.”
Source : 'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'
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“Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure”
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“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.”
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“Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.”
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“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”
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“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.”
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“The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.”
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“Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.”
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“There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.”
Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 74), 1968.
