Some Edward Abbey quotes
"I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words `phenomenology' or `structuralism', I reach for my buck knife." --Edward Abbey
"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." --Edward Abbey
"Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science." --Edward Abbey
"We are all ONE, say the gurus. Aye, I might agree--but one WHAT?" --Edward Abbey
"According to the current doctrines of mysticoscientism, we human animals are really and actually nothing but `organic patterns of nodular energy composed of collocations of infinitesimal points oscillating on the multi-dimensional coordinates of the space-time continuum'. I'll have to think about that. Sometime. Meantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the a posteriori coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, the one in the tennis skirt, tying her shoelaces." --Edward Abbey
"I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere." --Edward Abbey
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California." --Edward Abbey
"We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here." --Edward Abbey
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." --Edward Abbey
"The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others." --Edward Abbey
"The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe--fear and awe of the State." --Edward Abbey
"Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties." --Edward Abbey
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