No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Empire and liberty.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.