Ignorance Of What Real Learning Is, And

You Can Bear Anything If It Is Not Your Fault.

... If A Person Is To Be Unconventional, He Must Be Amusing Or He Is Intolerable: For, In The Nature Of The Case, He Guarantees You Nothing But Amusement. He Does Not Guarantee You Any Of The Little Amenities By Which Society Has Assured Itself That, If It Must Go To Sleep, It Will At Least Sleep In A Comfortable Chair.

... The More We Recruit From Immigrants Who Bring No Personal Traditions With Them, The More America Is Going To Ignore The Things Of The Spirit. No One Whose Consuming Desire Is Either For Food Or For Motor-cars Is Going To Care About Culture, Or Even Know What It Is.

The Insidiousness Of Science Lies In Its Claim To Be Not A Subject, But A Method. You Could Ignore A Subject; No Subject Is All-inclusive. But A Method Can Plausibly Be Applied To Anything Within The Field Of Consciousness.

Society, By Insisting On Conventions, Has Merely Insisted On Certain Convenient Signs By Which We May Know That A Man Is Considering, In Daily Life, The Comfort Of Other People.