The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.