Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute


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So I wonder what it is this need to tell.
To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profo...
PETER HELLER
There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and w...
PETER HELLER
It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely,...
PETER HELLER
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
PETER HELLER
How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. S...
PETER HELLER
How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.
PETER HELLER
We have traveled.
Now you will be the path
I will walk I will walk
Over you.
PETER HELLER
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes n...
PETER HELLER
Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they ...
JOSEPH HELLER
Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations....
PETER HELLER
Sheba has often told me that she thinks there's a rhythm to married life, an ebb and flow in the ple...
ZOë HELLER
There's been a lot of upsets. I'm seeing a lot of good seniors getting beat out that aren't even pla...
CRAIG HELLER
I'm not against nightclubs. The question is, is this the right place for a club the scale of this on...
CRAIG HELLER
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
JOSEPH HELLER
Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him an...
JOSEPH HELLER
I feel particularly lucky because I've got as professional and sympathetic a team as I could have,
ZOE HELLER
It's one of many indicators the Federal Reserve is watching, and it just adds to the general picture...
ROBERT HELLER
Procastination is the thief of time.
JOSEPH HELLER
Some men are born Mediocre men, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upo...
JOSEPH HELLER
It can't zip along as fast as a spider or ant yet. The speed was just for demonstration.
ED HELLER
Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and w...
CRAIG HELLER
Effective management always means asking the right question.
ROBERT HELLER
Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them...
JOSEPH HELLER
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornicatio...
JOSEPH HELLER
There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and en...
PETER HELLER
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER
Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here."
Major Major c...
JOSEPH HELLER
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
JOSEPH HELLER
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusive...
ROBERT HELLER
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempte...
JOSEPH HELLER
Someone once told me that, when your operations are not good, you should not talk strategy," says Iy...
MARTHA HELLER
Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to clim...
PETER HELLER
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt ...
PETER HELLER
We don't have anything in common. We just complement each other. You don't have to do everything tog...
EVA HELLER
When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. ...
BRUNO HELLER
I think this election will reflect on Schwarzenegger's standing with California voters. The initiati...
DOUGLAS HELLER
This decrease will mark the beginning of an essential expansion of coverage in the state.
DOUGLAS HELLER
For years, the poor, poor people of Los Angeles county were between a rock and a hard place of havin...
DOUGLAS HELLER
Everyone of us will pay lower insurance rates because when more people buy into the system, the rate...
DOUGLAS HELLER
It has been a delight to work with both of these dedicated volunteers. Their service has been very v...
DON HELLER
The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income ta...
DON HELLER
I'm convinced you can get great quality of education at a huge variety of schools. And that's coming...
DON HELLER
Does spending more per student lead to increased learning? That's a difficult one. At many schools, ...
DON HELLER
You'll see that the difference between what the school pays and tuition can vary dramatically.
DON HELLER
Federal law is supreme, and the state proposition, notwithstanding, is meaningless.
DON HELLER
It's very clear to us that gas prices need to be regulated. We really need to step back and recogniz...
DOUG HELLER