Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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.
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.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Never mistake motion for action.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.