The Chief Wonder Of Education Is That

Although The Senate Is Much Given To Admiring In Its Members A Superiority Less Obvious Or Quite Invisible To Outsiders, One Senator Seldom Proclaims His Own Inferiority To Another, And Still More Seldom Likes To Be Told Of It.

Even Theologians, Even The Great Theologians Of The Thirteenth Century, Even Saint Thomas Aquinas Himself Did Not Trust To Faith Alone, Or Assume The Existence Of God.

In The History Of The United States, There Is No Continuity At All. You Can Cut Through It Anywhere And Nothing On This Side Of The Cut Has Anything To Do With Anything On The Other Side.

In Practice, Such Trifles As Contradictions In Principle Are Easily Set Aside; The Faculty Of Ignoring Them Makes The Practical Man.

[p]hilosophy . . .consists Chiefly In Suggesting Unintelligible Answers To Insoluble Problems.