The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support, to help out, as a young gangster might help an old lady across the street on his way to the stick-up.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

Few great men could pass personnel.