Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.