"What disquieted Confucius was "leaving virtue untended and learning unperfected, hearing about what is right but not managing either to turn toward it or to reform what is evil." The disciple of Confucius was surely all too aware that his task was one calling not for amazement and miracle but for constant "cutting, filing, carving, polishing" in order to become a fully and truly human being, a worthy participant in society."

"“What arrogant fools we are!” said Jag. “Don’t you see?” To this day, despite all the humbling lessons the …"

"Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them…"

"As I see it humanity needs to reduce its impact on the Earth urgently and there are three ways to achieve t…"

"The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area rela…"

"She it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of …"

"It should not for a moment be supposed that cultivation of the intellect leads a man to shrink from inflict…"