A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.