Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the necessity of more fundamental and persistent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.