It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.