The Main Trouble With Despair

Man Is Not Imprisoned By Habit. Great Changes In Him Can Be Wrought By Crisis - Once That Crisis Can Be Recognized And Understood.

History Is An Accumulation Of Error.

Governments Are Not Built To Perceive Large Truths. Only People Can Perceive Great Truths. Governments Specialize In Small And Intermediate Truths. They Have To Be Instructed By Their People In Great Truths.

Progress Begins With The Belief That What Is Necessary Is Possible.

The Library Is Not A Shrine For The Worship Of Books. It Is Not A Temple Where Literary Incense Must Be Burned Or Where One's One Devotion To The Bound Book Is Expressed In Ritual. A Library, To Modify The Famous Metaphor Of Socrates, Should Be The Delivery Room For The Birth Of Ideas - A Place Where History Comes To Life.