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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Sympathy
Intelligence
Arms
Knowledge
Reason
Love

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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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