The Primary Purpose Of A Liberal Education

People Decline Invitations When They Are "indisposed" Physically, And I Wish They Would Do Likewise When They Feel Indisposed Emotionally. A Person Has No More Right To Attend A Party With A Head Full Of Venom Than With A Throat Full Of Virus.

The Acceptance Of Ambiguity Implies More Than The Commonplace Understanding That Some Good Things And Some Bad Things Happen To Us. It Means That We Know That Good And Evil Are Inextricably Intermixed In Human Affairs; That They Contain, And Sometimes Embrace, Their Opposites; That Success May Involve Failure Of A Different Kind, And Failure May Be A Kind Of Triumph.

The Founder Of Every Creed From Jesus Christ To Karl Marx, Would Be Appalled To Return To Earth And See What Has Been Made Of That Creed, Not By Its Enemies, But By Its Most Devoted Adherents.

Law Is Order In Liberty, And Without Order Liberty Is Social Chaos.

Ninety Per Cent Of The World's Woe Comes From People Not Knowing Themselves, Their Abilities, Their Frailties, And Even Their Real Virtues. Most Of Us Go Almost All The Way Through Life As Complete Strangers To Ourselves - So How Can We Know Anyone Else?