A Writer's Ambition Should Be To Trade

Einstein's Space Is No Closer To Reality Than Van Gogh's Sky.

When A Chess Player Looks At The Board, He Does Not See A Static Mosaic, A 'still Life', But A Magnetic Field Of Forces, Charged With Energy - As Faraday Saw The Stresses Surrounding Magnets And Currents As Curves In Space; Or As Van Gogh Saw Vortices In The Skies Of Provence.

A Writer's Ambition Should Be To Trade A Hundred Contemporary Readers For Ten Readers In Ten Years' Time And For One Reader In A Hundred Years' Time.

Two Half-truths Do Not Make A Truth, And Two Half- Cultures Do Not Make A Culture

The Evils Of Mankind Are Caused, Not By The Primary Aggressiveness Of Individuals, But By Their Self-transcending Identification With Groups Whose Common Denominator Is Low Intelligence And High Emotionality.