From The Psychological Point Of View, The

The Jester Is Brother To The Sage.

Wars Are Not Fought For Territory, But For Words. Man's Deadliest Weapon Is Language. He Is As Susceptible To Being Hypnotized By Slogans As He Is To Infectious Diseases. And Where There Is An Epidemic, The Group-mind Takes Over.

The Discoveries Of Yesterday Are The Truisms Of Tomorrow, Because We Can Add To Our Knowledge But Cannot Subtract From It.

Hitherto Man Had To Live With The Idea Of Death As An Individual; From Now Onward Mankind Will Have To Live With The Idea Of Its Death As A Species.

Of All Forms Of Mental Activity, The Most Difficult To Induce Even In The Minds Of The Young, Who May Be Presumed Not To Have Lost Their Flexibility, Is The Art Of Handling The Same Bundle Of Data As Before, But Placing Them In A New System Of Relations With One Another By Giving Them A Different Framework, All Of Which Virtually Means Putting On A Different Kind Of Thinking-cap For The Moment. It Is Easy To Teach Anybody A New Fact...but It Needs Light From Heaven Above To Enable A Teacher To Break The Old Framework In Which The Student Is Accustomed To Seeing.