To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.