The elimination of falsehood ends in more substance than
does the pursuit of truth. That’s because cognition is its own event but thinks
that it can be what merely
describes. It even thinks it can be the truth itself, something other
than a useful signpost. Denying the mind
its credibility is a step toward affirming reality, including our own larger self.
A valuable book, A Human Strategy, aphorism 387
387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood. To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process . In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism