A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.