An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.