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

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning