Small Is The Number Of People Who

The Pursuit Of Truth And Beauty Is A Sphere Of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives.

In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God, That Is, Give Up That Source Of Fear And Hope Which In The Past Placed Such Vast Power In The Hands Of Priests. In Their Labors They Will Have To Avail Themselves Of Those Forces Which Are Capable Of Cultivating The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In Humanity Itself. This Is, To Be Sure, A More Difficult But An Incomparably More Worthy Task.

Overemphasis Of The Competitive System And Premature Specialization On The Ground Of Immediate Usefulness Kill The Spirit On Which All Cultural Life Depends, Specialized Knowledge Included.

... The Desire For Truth Must Take Precedence Over All Other Desires.

The Real Difficulty, The Difficulty Which Has Baffled The Sages Of All Times, Is Rather This: How Can We Make Our Teaching So Potent In The Motional Life Of Man, That Its Influence Should Withstand The Pressure Of The Elemental Psychic Forces In The Individual?