“How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real.” KnowsRealAbsolutesUncertaintyEaseRelativeDeniedUncertainFacilityOrthodoxy Book:The Jack Vance Treasury Source: The Jack Vance Treasury
“Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.” RealBoredomDissatisfactionFugitive Author:Jack Vance
“You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.” MeanIdeasRealUsedEmotionCivilizationExperienceSymbolsConventionsAbstractionElectricalVicarious Author:Jack Vance
