The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

What are you working towards everyday besides death?

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

To live is to think.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

No Victory Without Suffering

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.