The Human Mind, In Taking Us Down

All Scientific Knowledge To Which Man Owes His Role As Master Of The World Arose From Playful Activities.

The Scientist Knows Very Well That He Is Approaching Ultimate Truth Only In An Asymptotic Curve And Is Barred From Ever Reaching It; But At The Same Time He Is Proudly Aware Of Being Indeed Able To Determine Whether A Statement Is A Nearer Or A Less Near Approach To The Truth.

I Believe-and Human Psychologists, Particularly Psychoanalysts Should Test This-that Present-day Civilized Man Suffers From Insufficient Discharge Of His Aggressive Drive. It Is More Than Probable That The Evil Effects Of The Human Aggressive Drives, Explained By Sigmund Freud As The Results Of A Special Death Wish, Simply Derive From The Fact That In Prehistoric Times Intra-specific Selection Bred Into Man A Measure Of Aggression Drive For Which In The Social Order Today He Finds No Adequate Outlet.

Hatred Of Humanity And Love Of Animals Make A Very Bad Combination.

We Had Better Dispense With The Personification Of Evil, Because It Leads, All Too Easily, To The Most Dangerous Kind Of War: Religious War.