One Of The Tests Of A Theory

Nobody Before The Pythagorean Had Thought That Mathematical Relations Held The Secret Of The Universe. Twenty-five Centuries Later, Europe Is Still Blessed And Cursed With Their Heritage. To Non-european Civilizations, The Idea That Numbers Are The Key To Both Wisdom And Power, Seems Never To Have Occurred.

War Is A Ritual, A Deadly Ritual, Not The Result Of Aggressive Self-assertion, But Of Self-transcending Identification. Without Loyalty To Tribe, Church, Flag Or Ideal, There Would Be No Wars.

The Revolutionary's Utopia, Which In Appearance Represents A Complete Break With The Past, Is Always Modeled On Some Image Of The Lost Paradise, Of A Legendary Golden Age... All Utopias Are Fed From The Source Of Mythology; The Social Engineers' Blueprints Are Merely Revised Editions Of The Ancient Text.

Without The Hard Little Bits Of Marble Which Are Called 'facts' Or 'data' One Cannot Compose A Mosaic; What Matters, However, Are Not So Much The Individual Bits, But The Successive Patterns Into Which You Arrange Them, Then Break Them Up And Rearrange Them.

Of All Forms Of Mental Activity, The Most Difficult To Induce Even In The Minds Of The Young, Who May Be Presumed Not To Have Lost Their Flexibility, Is The Art Of Handling The Same Bundle Of Data As Before, But Placing Them In A New System Of Relations With One Another By Giving Them A Different Framework, All Of Which Virtually Means Putting On A Different Kind Of Thinking-cap For The Moment. It Is Easy To Teach Anybody A New Fact...but It Needs Light From Heaven Above To Enable A Teacher To Break The Old Framework In Which The Student Is Accustomed To Seeing.