Civilization Is So Hard On The Body

All Possible Truth Is Practical. To Ask Whether Our Conception Of Chair Or Table Corresponds To The Real Chair Or Table Apart From The Uses To Which They May Be Put, Is As Utterly Meaningless And Vain As To Inquire Whether A Musical Tone Is Red Or Yellow. No Other Conceivable Relation Than This Between Ideas And Things Can Exist. The Unknowable Is What I Cannot React Upon. The Active Part Of Our Nature Is Not Only An Essential Part Of Cognition Itself, But It Always Has A Voice In Determining What Shall Be Believed And What Rejected.

Every Theory Of Love, From Plato Down Teaches That Each Individual Loves In The Other Sex What He Lacks In Himself.

Constant Muscular Activity Was Natural For The Child, And, Therefore, The Immense Effort Of The Drillmaster Teachers To Make Children Sit Still Was Harmful And Useless.

Adolescence Is When The Very Worst And Best Impulses In The Human Soul Struggle Against Each Other For Possession.

Puberty For A Girl Is Like Floating Down A Broadening River Into An Open Sea.