The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.