The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

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

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.