He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.