Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
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.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.