It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.