Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

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