This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.