It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.