What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.
My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.