Akston Quotes & Sayings

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government. — Joseph Sobran

It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place. — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

The stars have bewitched the sky of darkness — Jandy Nelson

Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause. Beauvoir not only marshaled — Simone De Beauvoir

Come back, paragraphs. America needs you. — Merlin Mann

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual. — Frederick Lenz

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature. — Aristotle.

What is it? A stunt? An experiment? A secret mission? Are you studying something for some special purpose?" "No, Miss Taggart. I'm earning my living." The words and the voice had the genuine simplicity of truth. "Dr. Akston, I ... it's inconceivable, it's ... You're ... you're a philosopher ... the greatest philosopher living ... an immortal name ... why would you do this?" "Because I am a philosopher, Miss Taggart. — Ayn Rand

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
(Letter, April 19, 1951) — Raymond Chandler

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else. — Brownie McGhee