Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.