Progress Would Be Wonderful - If Only

... There Is No Such Thing As A Rational World And A Separate Irrational World, But Only One World Containing Both.

A Particularly Fine Head On A Man Usually Means That He Is Stupid; Particularly Deep Philosophers Are Usually Shallow Thinkers; In Literature, Talents Not Much Above The Average Are Usually Regarded By Their Contemporaries As Geniuses.

His Answers Were Quite Often Like That. When She Spoke Of Beauty, He Spoke Of The Fatty Tissue Supporting The Epidermis. When She Mentioned Love, He Responded With The Statistical Curve That Indicates The Automatic Rise And Fall In The Annual Birthrate. When She Spoke Of The Great Figures In Art, He Traced The Chain Of Borrowings That Links These Figures To One Another.

... The Genius Never Makes Anything New, But Always Something That Is Just Different, And The Average Talents Provide Him The Possibility Within Which His Genius Condenses Into Achievements.

Wordsworth's Particular Grace, His Charisma, As Theologians Say, Has Been Granted In Equal Measure To So Very Few Men Since Time Was--to Plato And Who Else? The Crucial Thing Is Never What We Do, But Always What We Do Right After That. What Matters Is Always The Next Step!