Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

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.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

dont let the old break you; let the love make you

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.