The Insidiousness Of Science Lies In Its

Funny How People Despise Platitudes, When They Are Usually The Truest Thing Going. A Thing Has To Be Pretty True Before It Gets To Be A Platitude.

I Have Looked Warily At Anthropologists Ever Since The Day When I Went To Hear A Great Greek Scholar Lecture On The Iliad, And Listened For An Hour To Talk About Bull-roarers And Leopard-societies.

[science] Has Challenged The Super-eminence Of Religion; It Has Turned All Philosophy Out Of Doors Except That Which Clings To Its Skirts; It Has Thrown Contempt On All Learning That Does Not Depend On It; And It Has Bribed The Skeptics By Giving Us Immense Material Comforts.

On The Whole, I Should Say That The Person Who Likes To Lie Should Never, In Any Circumstances, Be Allowed To. Leave The Lying To The People Who Hate It. You Will Not Find Them Indulging Often.

The Past Is Discredited Because It Is Not Modern. Not To Be Modern Is The Great Sin. So, Perhaps, It Is. But Every One Has, In His Day, Been Modern. And Surely Even Modernity Is A Poor Thing Beside Immortality. Since We Must All Die, Is It Not Perhaps Better To Be A Dead Lion Than A Living Dog?