Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.