Margaret Benson Quotes

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But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

Margaret Benson

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

Margaret Benson

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 them permeate our consciousness.

Margaret Benson

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

Margaret Benson

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

Margaret Benson