The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
