The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.