After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.