The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Change is one thing, progress is another.
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them. ... The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy.
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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