The thought of the Upanishads is bold and free, and their general conclusion is that mystical experience is the pathway to reality. - C. E. M. Joad

If it is, then the sooner they give up the pretence of playing with public affairs and return to private life the better. If they cannot make a job of the House of Commons, let them at least make something of their own houses. If they cannot learn to save men from the destruction which incurable male mischievousness bids fair to bring upon them, let women at least learn to feed them, before they destroy themselves.

ومن هنا نجد أن غرس الحاسة الفنية أو الخلقية الرفيعة يقتضي قدرا من التواضع والإيمان، إذ لابد من التواضع فلا نسارع لإرضاء الرغبة في نقد وتجريح إنتاج أبعد من أن نقدره بطريقتنا المباشرة ولابد أن يتوافر الإيمان في قدرتنا علي أن نتمتع في المستقبل بما يسبب لنا ضجرا في الوقت الحالي.

That some contrivance has been devised or some increment of power obtained which will enabled human beings to move faster … or later more rapidly the position of matter in space than before is in the contemporary world regarded as a sufficient reason for making use of it. Nobody ever asks whether the use of the contrivance, the employment of the power, will make us happier, wiser, or better.