That The American, By Temperament, Worked To

Nothing In Education Is So Astonishing As The Amount Of Ignorance It Accumulates In The Form Of Inert Facts.

Every One Must Bear His Own Universe, And Most Persons Are Moderately Interested In Learning How Their Neighbors Have Managed To Carry Theirs.

My Belief Is That Science Is To Wreck Us, And That We Are Like Monkeys Monkeying With A Loaded Shell; We Don't In The Least Know Or Care Where Our Practically Infinite Energies Come From Or Will Bring Us To.

I Am Fairly Tired--bored Beyond Endurance--by The World We Live In, And Its Ideals, And Am Ready To Say So, Not Violently, But Kindly, As One Rubs Salt Into The Back Of A Flogged Sailor As Though One Loved Him.

The Effect Of Power And Publicity On All Men Is The Aggravation Of Self, A Sort Of Tumor That Ends By Killing The Victim's Sympathies.