Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.