Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest