He Who Mounts A Wild Elephant Goes

Really To Believe In Human Nature While Striving To Know The Thousand Forces That Warp It From Its Ideal Development - To Call For And Expect Much From Men And Women, And Not To Be Disappointed And Embittered If They Fall Short - To Try To Do Good With People Rather Than To Them - This Is My Religion On Its Human Side. And If God Exists, I Think That He Must Be In The Warm Sun, In The Kindly Actions Of The People We Know And Read Of, In The Beautiful Things Of Art And Nature, And In The Closeness Of Friendships.

The Ironic Life Is A Life Keenly Alert, Keenly Sensitive, Reacting Promptly With Feelings Of Liking Or Dislike To Each Bit Of Experience, Letting None Of It Pass Without Interpretation And Assimilation, A Life Full And Satisfying - Indeed A Rival Of The Religious Life.

Culture, Like The Kingdom Of Heaven, Lies Within Us, And Not In Foreign Galleries And Books.

We Can Easily Become As Much Slaves To Precaution As We Can To Fear.

The State Is Not The Nation, And The State Can Be Modified And Even Abolished In Its Present Form, Without Harming The Nation. On The Contrary, With The Passing Of The Dominance Of The State, The Genuine Life-enhancing Forces Of The Nation Will Be Liberated.