A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.