Insincerity Is Always Weakness; Sincerity Even In

To His [ Plato's ] Great Disappointment, He Found Anaxagoras Adducing Simple Physical Reasons, Instead Of The Teleological Reasons, Which He Had Expected. Such A Teacher Could No Longer Allure Him.

The Spontaneous Tendency To Invoke A Final Cause In Explanation Of Every Difficulty Is Characteristic Of Metaphysical Philosophy. It Arises From A General Tendency Towards The Impersonation Of Abstractions Which Is Visible Throughout History.

In Its Happiest Efforts, Translation Is But Approximation, And Its Efforts Are Not Often Happy. A Translation May Be Good As Translation, But It Cannot Be An Adequate Reproduction Of The Original.

To Write Much, And To Write Rapidly, Are Empty Boasts. The World Desires To Know What You Have Done, And Not How You Did It.

The Object Of Literature Is To Instruct, To Animate, Or To Amuse.