Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Wednesday's Philosophical Nugget

Today's pearls of wisdom come from the eminent William James:

"Yet the fact remains that war
is a school of strenuous life and heroism;
and, being in the line of aboriginal instinct,
is the only school that is universally available...
What we now need to discover in the social realm
is the moral equivalent of war;
something heroic that will speak to men
as universally as war does,
and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves
as war has proved itself to be incompatible"

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