Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.