The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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