The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

The family is the American fascism.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Never allow people without vision to cloud your own.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

Abstain from animals.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.