life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.