If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.