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 axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.