If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and... sons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With all of its bad influences, T.V. is not to be feared.... It can be a fairly safe laboratory for confronting, seeing through, a...nd thus being immunized against unhealthy values so as to be "in the world but not of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until w...e can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them bo...th opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led... to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the field of politics the equivalent of a theorem is a perfectly disciplined army; of a sonnet or picture, a police state under... a dictatorship. The Marxist calls himself scientific and to this claim the Fascist adds another: he is the poet--the scientific poet--of a new mythology.... Each applies to human situations the procedures which have proved effective in the laboratory and the ivory tower. They simplify, they abstract, they eliminate all that, for their purposes, is irrelevant.... They compel the facts to verify a favorite hypothesis, they consign to the waste paper basket all that, to their mind, falls short of perfection. And because they thus act like good artists, sound thinkers and tried experimenters, the prisons are full, political heretics are worked to death as slaves, the rights and preferences of mere individuals are ignored, the Gandhis are murdered and from morning till night a million school-teachers and broadcasters proclaim the infallibility of the bosses who happen at the moment to be in power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purifica...tion there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The memory loaded with mere bookwork is not the thing wanted--is, in fact, rather worse than useless--in the teacher of scientific... subjects. It is absolutely essential that his mind should be full of knowledge and not of mere learning, and that what he knows should have been learned in the laboratory rather than in the library.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »