The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.