The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.