Ideas Must Work Through The Brains And Arms Of Men

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers”

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”

“Imagination is more important than Knowledge.......”

“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”

“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”