I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Information is not knowledge.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.