The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.