To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith