A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.