There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you...

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you...

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than...

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than...

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting...

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting...

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will...

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will...

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a...

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a...