We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application..

It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the sub….

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress..

Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man ….

Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind whi….

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not..

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance ar….

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. Th….

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand th….

That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what the world is for. How can m….

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in t….

Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "preju….

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convinc….

Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization a….

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy..

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which i….

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a w….

The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rig….

The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desir….

The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of ….

The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That ki….