All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
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.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.