The Telephone Book Is Full Of Facts,

Too Many Facts Are Often As Much Of An Obstacle To Understanding As Too Few. There Is A Sense In Which We Moderns Are Inundated With Facts To The Detriment Of Understanding.

Think How Different Human Societies Would Be If They Were Based On Love Rather Than Justice. But No Such Societies Have Ever Existed On Earth.

The Tragedy Of Being Both Rational And Animal Seems To Consist In Having To Choose Between Duty And Desire Rather Than In Making Any Particular Choice

Work That Is Pure Toil, Done Solely For The Sake Of The Money It Earns, Is Also Sheer Drudgery Because It Is Stultifying Rather Than Self Improving.

If A Book Is Easy And Fits Nicely Into All Your Language Conventions And Thought Forms, Then You Probably Will Not Grow Much From Reading It. It May Be Entertaining, But Not Enlarging To Your Understanding. It’s The Hard Books That Count. Raking Is Easy, But All You Get Is Leaves; Digging Is Hard, But You Might Find Diamonds.