We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.