Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.