The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

You have to stop in order to change direction.