“The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.” MindGrowsStruggleIntegrityOvercomingPressureIndependentRewardsPainfulSatisfactionBeing TrueThinkerPortionsSoleIncessant Author:Howard Mumford Jones
“To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.” KnowsHas BeensDonePastPurposeHumanityEducationCreationScholarshipInterpreterHumanistic Author:Howard Mumford Jones
“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.” ThinkingMenTryingAgeAtheismProudMachinesSuspiciousThoughts And Thinking Author:Howard Mumford Jones
“If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.” IfsMenIndividualRightsDignityHuman RightsCommittedMythRepublic Book:The Bright Medusa Source: The Bright Medusa
“Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.” SpiritEnergyMoralProgressOptimismAmerican Spirit Author:Howard Mumford Jones
“Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies” LyingHeavenWindFlowerAngelWideWanderButterflyBeesDewSuperfluousLoneUnnoticedAcres Author:Howard Mumford Jones
“Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.” FirstsLawSocietyEasierCriticismPersecution Author:Howard Mumford Jones
