The Future Is Not A Gift-it Is

If We Trace Out What We Behold And Experience Through The Language Of Logic, We Are Doing Science; If We Show It In Forms Whose Interrelashionships Are Not Accessible To Our Conscious Thought But We Are Intuitively Recognized As Meaningful, We Are Doing Art.

I Find It Difficult To Believe That I Belong To Such An Idiotic, Rotten Species - The Species That Actually Boasts Of Its Freedom Of Will, Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All Of The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism.

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force; It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding.

I Know That It Is A Hopeless Undertaking To Debate About Fundamental Value Judgements. For Instance, If Someone Approves, As A Goal, The Extirpation Of The Human Race From The Earth, One Cannot Refute Such A Viewpoint On Rational Grounds. But If There Is Agreement On Certain Goals And Values, One Can Argue Rationally About The Means By Which These Objectives May Be Obtained.

The Normal Objective Of My Thought Affords No Insight Into The Dark Places Of Human Will And Feeling.