What do they teach them at these schools?

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?