Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

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

An individual human existence should be like a river

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.