The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Plato was right, but not quite right.