quotes about Kicking It

“In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic, thought is indifferent toward its objects. Whether they are mental or physical, whether they pertain to society or to nature, they become subject to the same general laws of organization, calculation, and conclusion but they do so as fungible signs or symbols, in abstraction from their particular "substance." This general quality (quantitative quality) is the precondition of law and order in logic as well as in society the price of universal control.”

“Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.”

“Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.”

“You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.”

“When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.”

“Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.”

“Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?”

“The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.”

“I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.”

“Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.”

Source : James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.88, Hachette UK