Goerz Rifle Quotes & Sayings

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

Nobody can tell you about that sword all that there is to be told of it; for those that know of those paths of Space on which its metals once floated, till Earth caught them one by one as she sailed past on her orbit, have little time to waste on such things as magic and so cannot tell you how the sword was made, and those who know whence poetry is, and the need that man has for song, or know any one of the fifty branches of magic, have little time to waste on such things as science, and so cannot tell you whence its ingredients came. Enough that it was once beyond our Earth and was now here amongst our mundane stones; that it was once but as those stones, and now had something in it such as soft music has; let those that can define it. — Lord Dunsany

Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever. — Aristotle.