There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having a meaning or intellectual value. They set activity running in a given groove, but there is no accompanying conscious purpose or meaning.

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

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.