Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.