You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone’s mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
The teacher’s role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines – be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.
First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence...
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God...