Reality Is The Cage Of Those Who

The World Shall Perish Not For Lack Of Wonders, But For Lack Of Wonder

We Must Learn Not To Take Traditional Morals Too Seriously. And It Is Just Because Even The Least Dogmatic Of Religions Tends To Associate Itself With Some Kind Of Unalterable Moral Tradition, That There Can Be No Truce Between Science And Religion.

While I Do Not Suggest That Humanity Will Ever Be Able To Dispense With Its Martyrs, I Cannot Avoid The Suspicion That With A Little More Thought And A Little Less Belief Their Number May Be Substantially Reduced.

Blake Expressed Some Doubt As To Whether God Had Made The Tiger. But The Tiger Is In Many Ways An Admirable Animal. We Have Now To Ask Whether God Made The Tapeworm. And It Is Questionable Whether An Affirmative Answer Fits In Either With What We Know About The Process Of Evolution Or What Many Of Us Believe About The Moral Perfection Of God.

In Fact, Words Are Well Adapted For Description And The Arousing Of Emotion, But For Many Kinds Of Precise Thought Other Symbols Are Much Better.