Finding Oneself Was A Misnomer; A Self

Seeing Clearly Within Himself And Always Able To Dodge Around The Ends Of Any Position, Including His Own, Shaw Assumed From The Start The Dual Role Of Prophet And Gadfly. To His Contemporaries It Appeared Frivolous And Contradictory To Perform As Both Superman And Socialist, Sceptic And Believer, Legalist And Heretic, High-brow And Mob-orator. But Feeling The Duty To Teach As Well As To Mirror Mankind, Shaw Did Not Accept Himself As A Contradictory Being.

Of True Knowledge At Any Time, A Good Part Is Merely Convenient, Necessary Indeed To The Worker, But Not To An Understanding Of His Subject: One Can Judge A Building Without Knowing Where To Buy The Bricks; One Can Understand A Violin Sonata Without Knowing How To Score For The Instrument. The Work May In Fact Be Better Understood Without A Knowledge Of The Details Of Its Manufacture, Of Attention To These Tends To Distract From Meaning And Effect.

Can An Idea A Notion As Abstract As Relativism Produce By Itself The Effects Alleged? Cause All The Harm, Destroy All The Lives And Reputations? I Am As Far As Anyone Can Be From Denying The Power Of Ideas In History, But The Suggestion That A Philosophy (as Relativism Is Often Called) Has Perverted Millions And Debased Daily Life Is On The Face Of It Absurd. No Idea Working Alone Has Ever Demoralized Society, And There Have Been Plenty Of Ideas Simpler And More Exciting Than Relativism.

Universities Incline Wits To Sophistry And Affectation.

Science Is, In The Best And Strictest Sense, Glorious Entertainment