Imaginative Literature Primarily Pleases Rather Than Teaches.

Think How Different Human Societies Would Be If They Were Based On Love Rather Than Justice. But No Such Societies Have Ever Existed On Earth.

Education Is The Sum Total Of One's Experience, And The Purpose Of Higher Education Is To Widen Our Experiences Beyond The Circumscribed Existence Or Our Own Daily Lives.

I Suspect That Most Of The Individuals Who Have Religious Faith Are Content With Blind Faith. They Feel No Obligation To Understand What They Believe. They May Even Wish Not To Have Their Beliefs Disturbed By Thought.

There Is A Strange Fact About The Human Mind, A Fact That Differentiates The Mind Sharply From The Body. The Body Is Limited In Ways That The Mind Is Not. One Sign Of This Is That The Body Does Not Continue Indefinitely To Grow In Strength And Develop In Skill And Grace. By The Time Most People Are Thirty Years Old, Their Bodies Are As Good As They Will Ever Be; In Fact, Many Persons' Bodies Have Begun To Deteriorate By That Time. But There Is No Limit To The Amount Of Growth And Development That The Mind Can Sustain. The Mind Does Not Stop Growing At Any Particular Age.

The Best Protection Against Propaganda Of Any Sort Is The Recognition Of It For What It Is. Only Hidden And Undetected Oratory Is Really Insidious. What Reaches The Heart Without Going Through The Mind Is Likely To Bounce Back And Put The Mind Out Of Business. Propaganda Taken In That Way Is Like A Drug You Do Not Know You Are Swallowing. The Effect Is Mysterious; You Do Not Know Afterwards Why You Feel Or Think The Way You Do.