Man always dies before he is fully born.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.