The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.