Our Problem Is Not To Find Better

The Creative Individual Has The Capacity To Free Himself From The Web Of Social Pressures In Which The Rest Of Us Are Caught. He Is Capable Of Questioning The Assumptions That The Rest Of Us Accept.

Josh Billings Said, It Is Not Only The Most Difficult Thing To Know Oneself, But The Most Inconvenient One, Too. Human Beings Have Always Employed An Enormous Variety Of Clever Devices For Running Away From Themselves, And The Modern World Is Particularly Rich In Such Stratagems.

The Society Which Scorns Excellence In Plumbing As A Humble Activity And Tolerates Shoddiness In Philosophy Because It Is An Exalted Activity Will Have Neither Good Plumbing Nor Good Philosophy: Neither Its Pipes Nor Its Theories Will Hold Water.

All Laws Are An Attempt To Domesticate The Natural Ferocity Of The Species.

At Home We Have Lost The Capacity To See What Is Before Us. Travel Shakes Us Out Of Our Apathy, And We Regain An Attentiveness That Heightens Every Experience. The Exhilaration Of Travel Has Many Sources, But Surely One Of Them Is That We Recapture In Some Measure The Unspoiled Awareness Of Children.