No One Really Knows Enough To Be

Time Given To Thought Is The Greatest Time Saver Of All.

The Library Is Not A Shrine For The Worship Of Books. It Is Not A Temple Where Literary Incense Must Be Burned Or Where One's One Devotion To The Bound Book Is Expressed In Ritual. A Library, To Modify The Famous Metaphor Of Socrates, Should Be The Delivery Room For The Birth Of Ideas - A Place Where History Comes To Life.

We Are Becoming A Nation Of Sissies And Hypochondriacs, A Self Medicating Society Easily Intimidated By Pain And Prone To Panic. We Understand Almost Nothing About The Essential Robustness Of The Human Body Or Its Ability To Meet The Challenge Of Illness.

The Present Mode Of Life On Earth Is Madness, Which Is Nontheless Lethal For Being Legal. Rational Existence Is Possible, But It Calls For A World Consciousness And A World Design. People Who Develop The Habit Of Thinking Of Themselves As World Citizens Are Fulfilling The First Requirement Of Sanity In Our Time.

Governments Are Not Built To Perceive Large Truths. Only People Can Perceive Great Truths. Governments Specialize In Small And Intermediate Truths. They Have To Be Instructed By Their People In Great Truths.