Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

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

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.

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