The Greeks Had an Answer by Gilbert Murray In trying to say what I really believe, I cannot recite one of the traditional creeds, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or the like. Most of us are born into one of them, and which it is depends simply o...
The Hidden Vitality of Human Beings by Newbold Morris What has been the most appealing part of the development of the American Dream? Well, to some of us, perhaps, the most dramatic phase of our development has been the ceaseless energy of the pionee...
Diogenes Didn't Need a Lamp BY DAVID LOTH I BELIEVE in people. However much of a mess we seem to make of the world, it is people who have brought about all the progress we know, and I don't mean just material progress. All have been for- mulated and...
The Debt of the Artist by Dimitri Mitropoulos Very early in my life, an important event took place: in my impressionable and youthful years, I discovered the personality of St. Francis. Since that time, my main ambition has been canalized into a stro...
A New Control of Destiny by Margaret Mead Children used to play a game of pointing at someone, suddenly saying, What are you? Some people answered by saying, I am a human being, or by nationality or by religion. When this question was put to me by a...
Life Grows in the Soil of Time by Thomas Mann What I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness. But is not transitoriness - the perishableness of life - something very sad? No! It is the very soul of existence. It imparts value, dignity, interest...
Three O' Cat Is Still a Game by Lillian Bueno Mccue What do I believe? What laws do I live by? There are so many answers - work, beauty, truth, love - and I hope I do live by them. But in everyday things I live by the light of a supplementary set of...
I Wish I Could believe by C. Day Lewis The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intesity. Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought u...
The Only Way to Make a Friend By Herbert Lehman So many things affect a mans philosophy and his life that I find it difficult to put into words my personal beliefs. I hesitate to speak of them publicly for fear of giving the appearance of preaching....
Inspiration from a Drainpipe By Mrs. John G. Lee I think the most profound influence in my life was my father. He was an inventor and a scientist with a most inquisitive mind. He loved and was greatly stimulated by the beauty and the design he found...
