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Quotations By Edward Abbey


Beliefs
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Beliefs
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Beliefs
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Experience
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Individuality
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.