Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

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.

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

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.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

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.