Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.