Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive JamesTags: science psychology logic
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive JamesAnyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Clive JamesThere is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.
Clive JamesWhen absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.
Clive JamesFriedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren’t in search of the truth, they’re in search of themselves.
Clive JamesDevotees who say that À la recherche du temps perdu reminds them of a cathedral should be asked which cathedral they mean. It reminds me of a sandcastle that the tide reached before its obsessed constructor could finish it; but he knew that would happen, or else why build it on a beach?
Clive JamesPhilosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.
Clive JamesAll intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
Clive JamesTags: politics power corruption ideology
Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.
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