“people in general so often seem to get dumber in direct proportion to their academic training.”
“The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
“Personal trust and spiritual maturity were often in direct proportion to the amount of suffering that had been offered for the faith.”
“The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
“(existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.” –p. 39”
“They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.”