I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.