The chasms that keep us from understanding – Sunday, August 30, 1959
These recent weeks we have considered happiness and. ignorance and understanding: the need for understanding facts and places, and people—perhaps especially people, for we so...
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On knowing the truth – Sunday, August 23, 1959
Last week we referred to the fallacy of the old adage that “ignorance is bliss”—and to the need for understanding. Now to turn for a...
The ignorance that shuts out understanding – Sunday, August 16, 1959
We spoke last week of happiness, of discontent, and of the problem of comparisons, and cited this two-century-old sentence: "If one only wished to be...
Happiness—and the paradox of comparison – Sunday, August 09, 1959
A sentence written some two or more centuries ago is significant in the search for the happiness that all of us so much seek. “If...
Our need of others—always – Sunday, July 26, 1959
Last week we cited a sentence from Sir Richard Livingstone that "the young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property,"1 and observed...
To the men of radio—to the makers of music— and to you the listeners – Sunday, July 19, 1959
In a significant sentence Sir Richard Livingstone once said: "The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property."1 At all ages, young...
The beginnings of habits – Sunday, July 12, 1959
We have talked in recent weeks of self-control, of the fact that every man must sometime be trusted to himself, and of the influencing of...
Self-control, and liberty, and law… – Sunday, July 05, 1959
May we recall these two phrases from a moving and meaningful song: "Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law."1 Always and earnestly urgent...
The basis of credit and confidence – Sunday, August 02, 1959
Last week we talked of the feelings of self-sufficiency that sometimes seem to assert themselves when people feel sure that they no longer have need...