The Human Mind Has First

Democracy, Taken In Its Narrower, Purely Political, Sense, Suffers From The Fact That Those In Economic And Political Power Possess The Means For Molding Public Opinion To Serve Their Own Class Interests. The Democratic Form Of Government In Itself Does Not Automatically Solve Problems; It Offers, However, A Useful Framework For Their Solution. Everything Depends Ultimately On The Political And Moral Qualities Of The Citizenry.

Why Is It That No One Understands Me And Everybody Likes Me

Time And Space Are Not Conditions Of Existence, Time And Space Is A Model For Thinking

It Is This Mythical, Or Rather Symbolic, Content Of The Religious Traditions Which Is Likely To Come Into Conflict With Science. This Occurs Whenever This Religious Stock Of Ideas Contains Dogmatically Fixed Statements On Subjects Which Belong In The Domain Of Science.

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves - This Critical Basis I Call The Ideal Of A Pigsty. The Ideals That Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed Empty To Me. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts - Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury - Have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.