The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

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