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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

John Steinbeck
Wall, Philosophy, Lying
John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.174, Penguin

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

John Steinbeck
Lonely, Art, Philosophy
"East of Eden". Book by John Steinbeck, 1952.

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

John Steinbeck
Philosophy, Learning, Science
John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.19, Penguin

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.

John Steinbeck
Religious, Philosophy, School
John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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