We adore chaos because we love to produce order. My work is a game, a very serious game. He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. You know, I had a great aunt once who said if you stare at a beautiful woman too long, you turn to stone. She was partially right. It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . . The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented, or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution. |