One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.