Not All That Counts, Can Be Counted

A Scientist Is A Mimosa When He Himself Has Made A Mistake, And A Roaring Lion When He Discovers A Mistake Of Others.

I Am Convinced That Some Political And Social Activities And Practices Of The Catholic Organizations Are Detrimental And Even Dangerous For The Community As A Whole, Here And Everywhere. I Mention Here Only The Fight Against Birth Control At A Time When Overpopulation In Various Countries Has Become A Serious Threat To The Health Of People And A Grave Obstacle To Any Attempt To Organize Peace On This Planet.

The Individual Who Has Experienced Solitude Will Not Easily Become A Victim Of Mass Suggestion.

The Really Valuable Thing In The Pageant Of Human Life Seems To Me Not The Political State, But The Creative, Sentient Individual, The Personality; It Alone Creates The Noble And The Sublime, While The Herd As Such Remains Dull In Thought And Dull In Feeling.

During The Last Century, And Part Of The One Before, It Was Widely Held That There Was An Unreconcilable Conflict Between Knowledge And Belief. The Opinion Prevailed Amoung Advanced Minds That It Was Time That Belief Should Be Replaced Increasingly By Knowledge; Belief That Did Not Itself Rest On Knowledge Was Superstition, And As Such Had To Be Opposed. According To This Conception, The Sole Function Of Education Was To Open The Way To Thinking And Knowing, And The School, As The Outstanding Organ For The People's Education, Must Serve That End Exclusively.