Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.