The Pursuit Of Knowledge For Its Own

The Difference Between Stupidity And Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits.

When I Was A Fairly Precocious Young Man I Became Thoroughly Impressed With The Futility Of The Hopes And Strivings That Chase Most Men Restlessly Through Life. Moreover, I Soon Discovered The Cruelty Of That Chase, Which In Those Years Was Much More Carefully Covered Up By Hypocrisy And Glittering Words Than Is The Case Today. By The Mere Existence Of His Stomach Everyone Was Condemned To Participate In That Chase. The Stomach Might Well Be Satisfied By Such Participation, But Not Man Insofar As He Is A Thinking And Feeling Being.

When A Man, After Long Years Of Searching, Chances Upon A Thought Which Discloses Something Of The Beauty Of This Mysterious Universe, He Should Not Therefore Be Personally Celebrated. He Is Already Sufficiently Paid By His Experience Of Seeking And Finding.

You Can't Use An Old Map To Explore A New World.

Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.