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

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 process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.