There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

I'm busy communicating ideas, ... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

To claim to understand, is a statement that only your imagination could conceive.

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.