We loved the earth but could not stay. Loren Eiseley's tombstone Children have more need of models than of critics. The result of the educative process is the capacity for further education. We can have facts without thinking, but we cannot have thinking without facts. Although the logos is common to all, the many live as though they had a private understanding.
Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
An honest God's the noblest work of man. The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. There is no sin except stupidity. The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.