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HEALTH
The adequate study...
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only...
I haven't strength...
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
Source: In An Anthropologist at...
The trouble with...
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
In a world...
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...
It is strange...
It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...
I was brought...
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the...
Some veil between...
Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens...
We need every...
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class...
I must admit...
I must admit I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human...
Never doubt that...
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing...
One [practitioner of...
One [practitioner of science] is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal...
When the human...
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man...
The creative element...
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which...
God knows how...
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own...
It is frequently...
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary...
Like the herd...
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Source:...
From the solitude...
From the solitude of the wood, [Man] has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the...
Each one of...
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hove a million other lives that were never destined to be...
It was the...
It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the...
If it should...
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a...