One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.