Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 6)

intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.’

Who’s to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who’s to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

Who’s to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who’s to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? . . .

There was no way to stop the sands of knowledge from slipping through the hourglass of my mind.

How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn’t know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?

People resent being shown that they don’t approach the complexities of the problem – they don’t know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye;

Paradise Lost I could only remember it was about

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.