The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.
Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.
A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.
Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them
Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.
Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.