The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to s….

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law,….

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings..

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no….

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but wh….

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it..

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not t….

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces..

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so..

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism..

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip ge….

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on f….

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made..

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one..

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes..

The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the so….

A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no othe….

We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold ….

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculp….

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesse….

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that utter….